bargeboard

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Noun
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barge=board

CIDE DICTIONARY

bargeboardn. [Perh. corrup. of vergeboard; or cf. LL. bargus a kind of gallows.].
     A vergeboard.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

bargeboard, n. a board (often ornamental) fixed to the gable-end of a roof to hide the ends of the roof timbers.

Etymology
perh. f. med.L bargus gallows

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