sound-boardingn.
Carpentry.
(See quot. 1842.)
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sound-boarding1799
pugging1801
deafening1839
counter-ceiling1859
sound-board1875
1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln 30 Sound-boarding, at 16s. 6d.
1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 1033 Sound-Boarding, in floors, consists of short boards placed transversely between the joists, and supported by fillets fixed to the sides of the latter for holding pugging, which is any substance that will prevent the transmission of sound from one story to another. [Hence in Knight Dict. Mech., etc.]
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