drop siding

noun

1. weatherboarding having its upper edges narrowed to fit into grooves or rabbets in its lower edges, and its backs flat against the sheathing or studs of the wall.

Example Sentences

Over this paper place any kind of boards that the fancy of the builder may dictate, as clapboards, shiplap, or drop-siding.

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Drop siding, or German siding as it is sometimes called, makes a warmer and better wall than weather-boarding.

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In this house made of one thickness of drop siding and paper, we spent the terrible snow winter of 80-81.

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This time it was a little square-roofed house made of drop siding (no more tar paper).

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Siding, 8-inch drop siding, put on horizontally, nailed with 10d nails.

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