stud n Cp OED ~ sb1 1 'one of the upright timbers in the wall of a building' for sense 1; sb1 5 'a boss or nailhead' for sense 2.
1 A log, round, roughly hewn or 'squatted,' placed upright next to other such logs to form the wall of a building.
1776 COUGHLAN 17 The houses there ... are all wood; the Walls, so called, are Studs put into the Ground close together, and between each, they stop Moss, as they call it, to keep out the Snow. 1819 ANSPACH 467-8 Others are built of logs left rough and uneven on the inside and outside, the interstices being filled with moss. This filling with moss the vacancies between the studs to keep out the weather. is there called chinsing... Tilt-backs, or linneys, are sheds made of studs, and covered with boards or with boughs. 1853 Ecclesiologist xiv. 157 A number of studs (i.e. sticks from four to six inches thick) are set upright on a sill as close together as possible, and the interstices filled up with moss. 1866 WILSON 216 The Newfoundland tilt can lay no claim to any ancient order of architecture, but is in its style perfectly original. The walls are formed of rough spruce sticks, called studs, of about six inches in diameter, the height of the sides six feet, and of the gables about ten or twelve feet. The studs are placed perpendicularly, wedged close together, and the chinks or interstices filled with moss... The floor is made with round studs like the walls, which are sometimes hewed a little with an adze. [1929] 1949 ENGLISH 48 An ordinary fisherman's home in the mid eighteenth century ... was built of 'studs' or logs of fir, square hewn and placed upright side by side. Two or three small windows were set in the sides. T 172-65 Cut off your stud eight feet or whatever 'twas, and then right where he'd sit to in your sill you would cut a groove an' he'd sit down in this mortise. M 69-14 All three types of these houses were built mostly with the use of studs or logs sawn or chopped into approximately two-inch thickness and placed side by side thus forming all of the walls. Clapboard was then nailed on the outside while it was boarded up inside and covered with either sheathing paper or patterned wall-paper. 1972 MURRAY 181 All early homes were built of studs (i.e., 2" x 4" timbers, roughed out with an axe).
2 Projecting metal point of a sealer's 'gaff.'
T 156/7-65 The after guards galley was locked, see. I stood off an' I put the stud o' my gaff in between the lock an' the face an' I give the prise.
3 Comb stud camp: shelter or bunk-house constructed of vertically placed logs; TILT (C 71-32).
stud-house: house constructed with walls of vertical logs instead of planks.
1853 Ecclesiologist xiv, 157 [In addition to 'frame-houses'] there are also 'stud-houses' and 'plankhouses.'
