Ashlering

1. n. The short upright pieces between the floor beams and rafters in garrets. See Ashlar, 2.
2. n. The act of bedding ashlar in mortar.
3. n. Ashlar when in thin slabs and made to serve merely as a case to the body of the wall.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.