If there is dry rot, the beam will often crumble under a slight pressure of the fingers.
In the next paper it is proposed to deal with the so-called "dry rot" in timber which has been felled and cut up—a disease which has produced much distress at various times and in various countries.
Why, I see what looks like a patch of dry rot up yonder, that I bet I could stick my fist into, said he.
This dry rot also fitted into the continuum mentioned above.
But alas, jargon creeps like dry rot from the foundations of a definition into its very heart.
The other serious and disturbing element in second-hand houses, apart from settlement or subsidence, is dry rot.
It was evident that certain repairs of a fairly large order would be required, dealing mostly with dry rot and that sort of thing.
That is for eradicating dry rot, repairing the roof, the stonework, and so forth.
