furring

furring is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

Definitions

  1. 1.(Shipbuilding) Double planking of a ship's side.
  2. 2.A deposit from water, as on the inside of a boiler; also, the operation of cleaning away this deposit.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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