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- noun (Arch.) See
furring .
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- noun architecture Alternative form of
furring .
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Also, because the firring is not structural, you can save money with widely spaced firring strips.
Sheetrock? 2002
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(From the Heart), & firring with the Japanese style action flicks: Don (the 2006 version)
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Brick walls may be thinner than stone walls, but they equally require "firring off" for inside plastering, and in addition, they need the aid of paint quite as often as wood, to give them an agreeable color -- bricks themselves not usually being in the category of desirable colors or shades.
Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings Lewis Falley Allen 1845
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This is better than _blocks_ laid in for such purpose, because it is effectually _bound_ by the stone, or brick work; whereas, a block may get loose by shrinking, but the nails which hold the firring to the plug, or to the thin strip of board will split and _wedge_ it closer to the mason work of the outside wall.
Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings Lewis Falley Allen 1845
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This may be done either by "plugging," that is, driving a plug of wood strongly into the mortar courses, into which the firring should be nailed, or by laying a strip of thin board in the mortar course, the entire length of each wall.
Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings Lewis Falley Allen 1845
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Violence between Pashtuns & Mohajirs karachi blast anp mqm violence bombing killed torchered death firring terrorist pukhtoon altaf shahi syed rally swat imran khan pakistan muttahida lyari baloch lahore pakhtoon pashtun pakhtoonkhuwa islamabad dubai uk london pti ppp Attack On Karachi Rally ALTAF PML (N) birmingham russian indian india delhi kanpur mombay dhaka bangladesh pathan hindustan china thailand japan doha saudia makkah arab kabul kandhar us army war terror taliban
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MQM Tring To Spark Deadly Ethnical Violence between Pashtuns & Mohajirs karachi blast anp mqm violence bombing killed torchered death firring terrorist pukhtoon altaf shahi syed rally swat imran khan pakistan muttahida lyari baloch lahore pakhtoon pashtun pakhtoonkhuwa islamabad dubai uk london pti ppp Attack On
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