furring strip

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   strip used to give a level surface for attaching wallboard

   Synonymsfurring

   Broaderstrip

Questions about furring strip

What does furring strip mean?

furring strip means "strip used to give a level surface for attaching wallboard".

What is another word for furring strip?

Close synonyms include furring. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is furring strip a common word?

furring strip is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.