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    Pricking-up
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Pricking-up, n. 
                                            
                                         The first coating of plaster in work of three coats upon laths. Its surface is scratched once to form a better key for the next coat. In the United States called scratch coat .                                         Brande & C.                                         [1913 Webster]                                                                                                                    
                                                                                    
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