chinking and daubing

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

The process of filling with clay the interstices between the logs of houses in the new countries. In the north of England it is called daubing and filling.--Moor.


Our log-house quarters, however, were closely chinked and daubed, and we passed a comfortable night.--Kendall's Santa Fé Exp. Vol. I. p. 28.

The interstices of the log wall were "chinked"--the chinking being large chips and small slabs, dipping like strata of rocks in geology; and the daubing, yellow clay ferociously splashed in soft by the hand of the architect.--Carlton, The New Purchase, Vol. I. p. 61.

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