skiintling
n.— Note: According to the Oxford English Dictionary, skintling is “to separate and reset (half-dried bricks) at angles to each other, so as to complete the drying.” «The brick facade is as curious as anything. It’s a technique called “skintling,” but it looks like the bricklayer was hitting the sauce while he worked.» —“Storybook Style” by Sara Anne Corrigan Evansville Courier & Press (Indiana) Jan. 20, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Do you refer to your dog or cat as “somebody”? As in: When you love somebody that much, you don’t mind if they slobber. In other words, is your pet a somebody or a something? Also, for centuries, there was little consistency in the...
Susie Dent’s murder mystery Guilty by Definition (Bookshop|Amazon) follows a lexicographer in Oxford who becomes a sleuth of a different kind, seeking the culprit in a long-unsolved killing. A lexicographer herself, Dent includes lots of obscure and...