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bargeboard
CIDE DICTIONARY
bargeboard, n. [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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