verge-boardn.
/ˈvəːdʒbɔːd/, U.S. /ˈvərdʒˌbɔrd/ Architecture.
= barge-board n.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > bargeboards, etc.
wind-barge1603
waterbargea1613
barge-course1668
roll1810
valley-board1823
verge-board1827
siding1829
barge-board1833
verge1833
verge-boarding1835
parge-board1840
snowboard1876
hollow roll1904
1827 T. F. Hunt Designs for Parsonage Houses 5 Ornamental barge-boards... [Note] By some called verge-boards.
1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §470 Sixty-six feet lineal one and a half inch verge board to gables.
1835 F. Goodwin Rural Archit. Add. 2 The Verge Boards to be cut out of 2½ inch Timber plank, well spiked to the rafter-ends of the Roof and Purlins.
1861 B. Poste in Archaeologia Cantiana 4 116 There are mouldings on the verge-boards of the pediment.
1910 Athenæum 3 Sept. 272/2 The..church of Witley has good fourteenth-century verge-boards attached to the gable of its stone porch.
Derivatives
verge-boarding n. rare
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > bargeboards, etc.
wind-barge1603
waterbargea1613
barge-course1668
roll1810
valley-board1823
verge-board1827
siding1829
barge-board1833
verge1833
verge-boarding1835
parge-board1840
snowboard1876
hollow roll1904
1835 F. Goodwin Rural Archit. Add. 2 The Gables and Verge Boarding.
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