batter board

American  

noun

1. (at a building site) one of a number of boards set horizontally to support strings for outlining the foundation plan of a building.

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Example Sentences

This done they drove other nails in each batter board six inches outside of the building line to locate the outside of the footing, and removed the lines to these nails.

From Project Gutenberg

They now stretched a line between the two pegs and coming within a few feet from the first one, set up a batter board three feet long, and at right angles to the line—the same as they had done with the dairy house foundations.

From Project Gutenberg

Then they measured off two hundred and fifty-two feet along the line and set up another batter board in the same manner.

From Project Gutenberg