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Definition of Nailings
1. nailing [n] - See also: nailing
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nailings
Literary usage of Nailings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Country House: A Practical Manual of the Planning and Construction of by Charles Edward Hooper (1905)
"Galvanised nails should be used, with two nailings to a narrow and three ...
There should be two nailings to each slate, galvanised nails being used. ..."
2. The Country House: A Practical Manual of the Planning and Construction of by Charles Edward Hooper (1906)
"Galvanised nails should be used, with two nailings to a narrow and three ...
There should be two nailings to each slate, galvanised nails being used. ..."
3. Cyclopedia of Architecture, Carpentry and Building: A General Reference Work by American Technical Society (1909)
"... and to provide nailings for the finish woodwork. It is essential for the
carpenter to place any necessary furring for cornices, door-caps, etc., ..."
4. Building Construction and Superintendence by Frank Eugene Kidder (1915)
"When stone walls are to be furred or "strapped" they are often "plugged" to
form "nailings." This "plugging" is done by raking out the mortar and driving in ..."
5. Building Construction and Superintendence by Frank Eugene Kidder (1909)
"The studding or furring strips should therefore be spaced either 12 or 16 inches
apart on centers; 12-inch spacing gives five nailings and i6-inch spacing ..."
6. The American Journal of Education by Henry Barnard (1861)
"All the Partitions in the main building «re to be set with two-by-four-inch plank
Studs, so as to give five nailings to a lath, thoroughly bridged ..."
7. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"They require each either four or five nailings, the former calling for a spacing
of joists or studs 16 inches on centres, and the latter, ..."
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