Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Trimming or lining made of fur.
- noun A furlike coating, as on the tongue.
- noun The preparation of a wall, ceiling, or floor with strips of wood or metal to provide a level substratum for plaster, flooring, or another surface or to create an air space.
- noun Strips of material used in this process.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Furs; peltry; trimmings of fur.
- noun A deposit resembling fur, as of scale in a steam-boiler or of epithelium on the tongue.
- noun In carpentry: The nailing on of thin strips of board, as to joists and rafters, in order to bring them to a level to form an even surface, or in other positions for various purposes.
- noun plural The strips thus nailed on.
- noun Strips fastened to a solid wall of a house for nailing laths on, and to provide an air-space between the wall and plastering.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The leveling of a surface, or the preparing of an air space, by means of strips of board or of larger pieces. See
fur , v. t., 3. - noun The strips thus laid on.
- noun (Shipbuilding) Double planking of a ship's side.
- noun A deposit from water, as on the inside of a boiler; also, the operation of cleaning away this deposit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
fur . - noun Parts of
clothing made fromfur . - noun A
coating that resembles fur. - noun A strip of material used to prepare a wall for
plastering . - noun shipbuilding
double planking of a ship's side
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a furlike coating of matter as on the tongue
- noun strip used to give a level surface for attaching wallboard
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Examples
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Temporarily hard water may be softened by boiling; the lime will be deposited, as may be seen in the "furring" of tea-kettles.
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Also, is anyone worried about the pipes furring up…
CHEAP DISHWASHER - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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The grass was the fresh green of early summer, clumps of sturdy growth shooting out of the rocks and furring the ground under the oaks.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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But her hands began to stroke the thick, black furring about his neck.
Captured by Moonlight Nancy Gideon 2010
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This house proposes that we not sully the memory of a parent, least of all one who sends a judder through a child, unleashing rather that selfsame, satin-lined grizzly, that selfsame man-eater whose breath is furring the windshield.
The Windshield 2008
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This house proposes that we not sully the memory of a parent, least of all one who sends a judder through a child, unleashing rather that selfsame, satin-lined grizzly, that selfsame man-eater whose breath is furring the windshield.
The Windshield 2008
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But her hands began to stroke the thick, black furring about his neck.
Captured by Moonlight Nancy Gideon 2010
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We used ipe wood strips as the skin of the structure, the ipe wood skin is devised as a double wall system, in which horizontal ipe strips are placed over vertical, furring strips.
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But her hands began to stroke the thick, black furring about his neck.
Captured by Moonlight Nancy Gideon 2010
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Seriously, find studs, they have to be there, mark and ck for levelness, then make a cleat (2) (a piece of 1x2 lumber - furring strip) that fits along length of shelf that you can screw to the studs.
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