Meaning & use
sarking
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Boarding or sheeting fixed across roof rafters to support roofing material such as slates or felt.
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The builders replaced the rotten sarking before laying new roof tiles.
Damp had seeped through gaps in the old sarking boards.
A note on using this word
"Sarking" is common in Scottish and northern English building terminology, distinct from the everyday sense of "sark" meaning shirt.
Words with a similar meaning
roof sheathing
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