The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pricking-up
Pricking-up \Prick"ing-up\, n. (Arch.)
The first coating of plaster in work of three coats upon
laths. Its surface is scratched once to form a better key for
the next coat. In the United States called scratch coat.
--Brande & C.
Wiktionary
pricking-up
n. (context architecture English) The first coating of plaster in work of three coats upon laths; a scratch coat. Its surface is scratched once to form a better key for the next coat.
Usage examples of "pricking-up".
Gery had not swelled against the girth, rather took him up in good order, but with a little shiver and a pricking-up of the ears at this breaking-forth of warlike equipment.