weathertight
Americanadjective
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The next wave of high-performance outerwear is sleek, simple, stylish and admirably weathertight.
From Time Magazine Archive
He turned and looked at it, studied the crude work The brush made a fair wall, not weathertight but it cut most of the wind off.
From "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen
The covers were laced to the hull framework and the connections were covered over with sealing strips to render the whole weathertight.
From British Airships, Past, Present, and Future by Whale, George
Good, dry walls are of little use without good roofs, and for a comfortable house the roofs should not only be watertight and weathertight, but also, if I may use the term, heat-tight.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 by Various
Fires were set going and the unhappy prisoners made themselves comfortable confident that their trials now were over, and that they were destined to prolonged residence under weathertight roofs.
From Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben by Mahoney, Henry Charles
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