board up

present singular third person boards up · participle present boarding up · participle past boarded up · past boarded up

1. transitiveTo block doors or windows with boards, either to prevent access or as protection from storms, etc.

   The metals from Upnor to the boarded-up Tankfield signal box (by a gateless level crossing) were very rarely used.

   1941 May, J. Ronald Hayton, “The Chattenden & Upnor Narrow-Gauge Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 208

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   Don’t be so darn foolish. It’s the calm afore the storm, Winslow. She were a gentle westerly wind yer cursin’. Only feels roughly ‘cause you don’t know nothin’ bout nothin’ and there ain’t no trees on this here rock like your Hudson Bay bush. Nor’Easterly wind’ll come soon a-blowin’ like Gabriel’s horn. Best board up them signal house winders.

   2019, Robert Eggers, Max Eggers, The Lighthouse (motion picture), spoken by Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe)