bargeboard (barjbord)

[Hardly, as has been suggested, a corruption of verge - board, which is also used. Cf. ML. bargus, a kind of gallows.] In arch., a board placed in advance of a gable and underneath the barge course, where the roof extends over the wall, either covering the rafter that would otherwise be visible, or occupying its place. The earliest barge-boards date from the fourteenth century; many examples of this and the fifteenth century are beautifully row1, of which bargh is a dial. form: see bar rowl.] 1. A low ridge or hill. - 21. A road up a hill. Ray. 3. A mine. [Prov. Eng. in all senses.]