weatherboard

[weth -er-bawrd, -bohrd]

noun

an early type of board used as a siding for a building.

Chiefly British. any of various forms of board used as a siding for a building.

Nautical. the side of a vessel toward the wind.

verb (used with object)

to cover or furnish with weatherboards.

Nearby words

Origin of weatherboard

First recorded in 1530–40; weather + board

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Examples from the Web for weatherboard

Weatherboard—that is, planks overlapping each other—was formerly much used for house-fronts, and possessed great durability.
Nooks and Corners of English Life, Past and Present|John Timbs
Far otherwise is it with a weatherboard building overtaken by the same fate.
Savage Island|Basil C. Thomson
Nearer to the station cluster the weatherboard business places of the little township of Burunda.
In the Mist of the Mountains|Ethel Turner
Some of them had weatherboard houses but the majority of them was log houses.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves|Work Projects Administration

In the middle of the day we baited our horses at a little inn, called the Weatherboard.
A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World|Charles Darwin

British Dictionary definitions for weatherboard

weatherboard

noun

a timber board, with a groove (rabbet) along the front of its top edge and along the back of its lower edge, that is fixed horizontally with others to form an exterior cladding on a wall or roofCompare clapboard

a sloping timber board fixed at the bottom of a door to deflect rain

the windward side of a vessel

Also called: weatherboard house mainly Australian and NZ a house having walls made entirely of weatherboards

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