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.

Origin of weatherboard

First recorded in 1530–40; weather + board

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Examples from the Web for weatherboard

Historical Examples of weatherboard

The new edifice, he said, must be built of weatherboard and iron.
Savage Island
Basil C. Thomson
They could at least weatherboard them and make them more comfortable.
The Land of Lure
Elliott Smith
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
There was nothing royal, or even comfortable, about this weatherboard and iron inn, except its name.
The Record of Nicholas Freydon
A. J. (Alec John) Dawson
Nearer to the station cluster the weatherboard business places of the little township of Burunda.
In the Mist of the Mountains
Ethel Turner

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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