Dry Rot Definition

noun
A fungous decay causing seasoned timber to become brittle and crumble to powder.
Webster's New World
A similar fungous disease of plants, fruits, and vegetables.
Webster's New World
Any of various fungi causing such decay.
Webster's New World
Any internal moral or social decay, thought of as resulting generally from lack of new or progressive influences.
Webster's New World
The crumbly, friable decayed portions of wooden members of buildings, especially at or below grade, usually caused by a fungal infection.
1836 They are, for the most part, low-roofed, mouldy rooms, where innumerable rolls of parchment, which have been perspiring in secret for the last century, send forth an agreeable odour, which is mingled by day with the scent of the dry-rot, and by night with the various exhalations which arise from damp cloaks, festering umbrellas, and the coarsest tallow candles. — Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers.
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Dry Rot Sentence Examples

  • I heard of a church that had dry rot.

  • The timber is much used in some rural districts for flooring, and is durable for indoor purposes when protected from dry-rot; it has, like most poplar woods, the property of resisting fire better than other timber.

  • Every time a carpenter saws fresh timber with a saw recently put through wood attacked with dry-rot, he risks infecting it with the Fungus; and similarly in pruning, in propagating by cuttings, &c.

  • No sharp line can be drawn between these diseases and some of the preceding, inasmuch as it often depends on the external conditions whether necrosis is a dry-rot, in the sense I employ the term here, or a wet-rot, when it would come under the preceding category.

  • This sum proved totally inadequate generations later to meet the cost of eradicating the dry rot at an estimated sum of £ 40,000.

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