| Summary: | stud n .when you would sit your stud, (you) cut off your stud - eight feet or whatever 'twas,an' _ an' you would leave two inches down(there)- eight feet two inches. You cut_ you'd cut out a mortise there, an' then right where he'd sit to in your sill you would cut a grove there an' he'd sit down in this mortise,an' every _ every stud had to be _ had to _ had to go down in what they call this mortise. This was how the houses was built that time. (piece of timber? post ?) Yes DNE-cit J. D. A. WIDDOWSON JUL 1973 (See OED _stud_) Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 1 Used I stud camp, stud-house Source listed in DNE as T 172-65
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