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Pricking-Up

Webster's Dictionary

(n.) The first coating of plaster in work of three coats upon laths. Its surface is scratched once to form a better key for the next coat. In the United States called scratch coat.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Pricking-Up'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/pricking-up.html. 1828.