matchboarding

American  

[mach-bawr-ding, -bohr-] / ˈmætʃˌbɔr dɪŋ, -ˌboʊr- /

noun

1. a construction of matchboards.

2. a quantity of matchboards.

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Etymology

Origin of matchboarding

First recorded in 1860–65; matchboard + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

In the meantime, Edward Garden's own house was a very different place from those two cottages that Dafydd Dafis had taken his own good time about matchboarding.

From Mushroom Town by Onions, Oliver

He did not replace the matchboarding over the window, but stowed it away in the coal-shed.

From The Secret of the Tower by Hope, Anthony

I shall have a marquee with matchboarding sides fixed up inside, and heat it with a few of those smokeless stoves.

From The Regent by Bennett, Arnold

I feel that there's only a dyke of matchboarding between me and the ocean of knowledge.

From Captivity by Eyles, M. Leonora

Timbers groaned, a seam in the matchboarding opened and shut, and a dull concussion shook the boat when her bows plunged into the swell.

From Wyndham's Pal by Bindloss, Harold