Sentence:  Although all of the mortar <WSD>pargings</WSD> were crazed, the effects of weathering were most apparent in the top <WSD>pargings</WSD> and in the top courses of the walls. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A coat of cement mortar on the face of rough masonry, the earth side of foundation and basement walls; a parge.