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furring, vbl. n.|ˈfɜːrɪŋ|
[f. fur v. + -ing1.]
1. a. The action of clothing or adorning with fur. b. concr. A lining or trimming of fur. Also collect.
c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋344 Þer is also costlewe furring in here gownes. c1394P.P. Crede 604 Hem faileþ no furrynge ne cloþes at full. 1536Bellendene Cron. Scot. (1821) I. xxxiii, Mony martrikis, bevers, quhitredis and toddis; the furringis and skinnis of thaim ar coft with gret price amang uncouth marchandis. 1554T. Martin Bk. Priests' Marriages (R.), Their whole life is spent..in providing for furring of their backs. a1577Gascoigne Flowers, etc. Wks. (1587) 38 Their garments..fret for lack of furring. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. ii. xxiii. 62 He shall have the whole furring of a long gowne..for fourescore or a 100 ducats. c1610Sir J. Melvil Mem. (1735) 209 He sent me his own Night-Gown furred with rich Furrings. 1708J. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. ii. iii. vi. (1743) 416 None might wear Silk or costly furring except Knights & Barons. 1849Rock Ch. of Fathers II. vi. 53 Among the clergy of the lower grade in a cathedral, there was a distinction marked by the furring of the amys. 1886Sci. Amer. N.S. LV. 129/2 A sort of hedgehog with heavy furring and short legs.
2. The process of becoming furred or incrusted; the state of being furred; also, a coating of fur.
1601Holland Pliny xx. xiv. II. 59 With Honie it [Mint] cureth the roughnes & furring of the toung. 1612Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 217 The furring of the mouth and the throat in fevers. 1831Brewster Newton (1855) I. i. 9 Their chief inconvenience arose from the furring up of the small hole through which the water passed. 1885W. L. Carpenter Soaps & Candles 212 The lime salts are deposited in an insoluble form, such as the ‘furring’ in a tea-kettle or boiler.
3. a. Shipbuilding. The action or process of double planking a ship's side; also, a piece of timber used for this. Cf. doubling 3 b.
1622R. Hawkins Voy. S. Sea (1847) 120 Another manner is used with double plankes as thicke without as within after the manner of furring. 1627Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. xi. 52 Ripping off the plankes two or three strakes vnder water and as much aboue, and put other Timbers vpon the first, and then put on the planks vpon those timbers, this..is called Furring. a1642Sir W. Monson Naval Tracts iii (1704) 346/2 Another Sheathing is with double Planks..like a Furring. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Furring, doubling planks on a ship. Also, a furring in the ship's side.
b. Building. The nailing on of thin strips of board in order to level or raise a surface for lathing, boarding, etc. Also, the strips thus laid on.
1678Moxon Mech. Exerc. I. 167 Furrings, the making good of the Rafters Feet in the Cornice. 1703T. N. City & C. Purchaser 146 When Rafters are..sunk hollow in the middle, and pieces (cut thickest in the middle, and to a point at each end) are nail'd upon them to make them straight again; the putting on of those pieces is call'd Furring the Rafters. 1823P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 223 Furrings, slips of timber nailed to joists or rafters, in order to bring them to a level. 1850Parker Gloss. Archit. (ed. 5), Furrings, or Shreadings, short pieces attached to the feet of the rafters of a roof. 1859Gwilt Archit. Gloss., Furring, the fixing of thin scantlings or laths upon the edges of any number of timbers in a range, when such timbers are out of the surface they were intended to form. 1883Harper's Mag. Nov. 884/2 The only combustible material..is the wood used in the floors and their furrings.
c. Building. ‘A lining of scantling and plaster-work on a brick wall, to prevent the dampness of the latter reaching the room’ (Cassell).
4. The business of collecting furs or hunting furred animals; fur-trading. Also attrib.
1778G. Cartwright Jrnl. (1792) II. 373, I fitted out Joseph Tero for a furring voyage to White-bear River. 1849Jrnl. Bp. Newfoundland's Voy. 67 Sixty miles within that bay the Hudson's Bay Company have a furring establishment. Ibid., The settled inhabitants..are supported by the salmon fishery, by furring, and by killing seals. 1856W. E. Cormack Narr. Journey Newfoundland (1874) viii. 73 The extent of their salmon and cod fisheries, and of their furring, was noticed when speaking of the occupation collectively of the inhabitants of St. George's Bay. 1920Grenfell & Spalding Le Petit Nord (1921) 62 In the winter the northern people move up the bays and go ‘furring’. |