Definitions for pargets

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pargets par·get

Spelling: [pahr-jit]

IPA: /ˈpɑr dʒɪt/

Pargets is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 342 anagrams from letters in pargets (aegprst).

Definitions for pargets

noun

1. any of various plasters or roughcasts for covering walls or other surfaces, especially a mortar of lime, hair, and cow dung for lining chimney flues.
2. gypsum.
3. pargeting (defs 2, 3).

verb (used with object)

1. to cover or decorate with parget or pargeting.

Origin of pargets

1300-50; Middle English Middle French pargeter, equivalent to par- per- + geter, spelling variant of jeter to throw; see jet¹

Examples for pargets

parget saw the natives with their rifles and seemed a little puzzled.

I dont, said Mr parget, Id sooner be suspected wrongly than rightly any day.

Well, said parget, theyre the finest set of natives Ive seen yet anywhere.

But he said nothing of this to parget at present; it might possibly make a yarn for a dull evening on the Snowflake.

Quite natural that you should be careful, sir, said parget, smiling.

The verb is, of course, the same as 'parget'—'to plaster or distemper'.