weather-tight

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1. alternativeAlternative form of weathertight.

   The house was weather-tight and warm, big fires blazed in every room.

   2010, Elizabeth Gill, chapter 22, in Snow Hall, Sutton, Surrey: Severn House Publishers, →ISBN, page 193

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   […] There’s a rubble-stone Unfit for the front o’ the building, stuff to stow In a gap behind and keep us weather-tight; There’s porphyry for the prominent place. Good lack!

   1869, Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1917, Part VI, lines 309-312, p. 215

   Some experts claim that it is a bad practice in stone buildings to build the window-frames in with the stone masonry of the wall, and that the openings should be carefully made, the stone wall being brought to a proper face, thoroughly pointed, and the window-frames put in afterward, if a weather-tight job is desired.

   1897, Francis C[ruger] Moore, “Inside the House”, in How to Build a Home: The House Practical; Being Suggestions as to Safety from Fire, Safety to Health, Comfort, Convenience, Durability, and Economy, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday & McClure Co., →OCLC, page 42