NOUN
- a fungus causing dry rot
- a crumbling and drying of timber or bulbs or potatoes or fruit caused by a fungus
How To Use dry rot In A Sentence
- Their rambling villa, once a model of gracious elegance, was now a paradise of dry rot, with its skeletal verandah, rickety walls and warped weatherboards.
- At least we were out of the mud and I had started to feel alive enough to tackle a dry roti.
- There was other, direct, evidence of dry rot in the timbers of the building.
- The house was riddled with dry rot.
- He knew that the corner section of the porch floor sagged wit1i dry rot.
- This led to problems of dry rot which, in turn, were beginning to affect the structural integrity of the floor joists and roof trusses of the building.
- The trees were in bad shape from dry rot.
- To locate dry rot, tap questionable areas with a hammer and listen for a hollow, dead sound.
- Old houses may be unsafe because of treatment for timber and dry rot. M. E. Post-Viral Fatigue Syndrome - How To Live With It
- She claimed for dry rot in a house in Southampton on expenses. Times, Sunday Times