studding

Pluralstuddings (some meanings)

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of stud.

   The craftsman spent the afternoon studding the saddle with brass tacks.

   Small farms studding the valley floor came into view as the plane descended.

   Note

   Stud doubles its d before -ing, as nod and plod do. The form works in two directions: a craftsman studding a saddle is setting knobs or tacks into it, while farms studding a valley simply lie scattered across it, with the scattered things themselves as the subject. The noun studding, for a wall's timber frame, shares the spelling.

2. 2
   noununcountable

   The wooden frame behind a lath-and-plaster wall, made up of the upright studs to which the laths are fixed.

   Termites had eaten through much of the studding behind the kitchen wall.

   Once the studding was up, the crew nailed thin laths across it to hold the plaster.

   Similarframing

3. 3
   nouncountable

   A wooden batten used in the timber framework of a lath-and-plaster wall.

   The carpenter set each studding upright and checked it with a level before nailing it.

   Water had rotted the bottom of three studdings along the back wall.

   Similarupright

4. 4
   nouncountable or uncountable

   Anything set at points over a surface so as to stud it, such as ornamental knobs.

   The door's studding of iron nails had rusted to a dull brown.

   Brass studdings ran in neat rows along the lid of the old trunk.

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