PARGETTING (from O. Fr. pargeter or pajeter;

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• PAR (Lat. par, equal)

par, all over, and jeter, to throw, i.e. " rough

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• CAST (from the verb meaning " to throw "; the word is Scand. in origin, cf. Dan. kaste, and Swed. kasta; " cast " in Middle Eng. took the place of the A.S. weor pan, cf. Ger. werf en)

cast "; other derivations suggested have been from

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• LAT

Lat. spargere, to sprinkle, and from paries, a

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• WALL (O. Eng. weal, weall, Mid. Eng. wal, wane, adapted from Lat. vallum, rampart; the original O. Eng. word for a wall was wag or tenth)
• WALL, RICHARD (1694-1778)

wall, the last due to

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• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing the parjet in the

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• FORM (Lat. forma)

form pariet)  , a term applied to the decoration in relief of the plastering between the studwork on the outside of half-timber houses, or sometimes covering the whole wall . The devices were stamped on the wet plaster . This seems generally to have been done by sticking a number of pins in a board in certain lines or curves, and then pressing on the wet plaster in various directions, so as to form geometrical figures . Sometimes these devices are in relief, and in the time of Elizabeth represent figures, birds, foliages, &c.; fine examples are to be seen at Ipswich, Maidstone, Newark, &c . (See PLASTER-WORK.) The term is also applied to the lining of the inside of smoke flues to form an even surface for the passage of the smoke .