Meanings
plural weatherboardings
- countableuncountablearchitectureA type of wooden siding in which a house is sided with long, thin, overlapping boards.
He stayed with him some time talking about the three-roomed house for Mario, and arranged for him to come and measure up for the timber and weatherboarding required.
1952, Neville Shute, chapter 1, in The Far Country, London: Heinemann1 more example
Upstream from the house is a watermill, cased in gleaming white weather-boarding, which has been restored to working order. Near by is the water-driven turbine which [Rudyard] Kipling had installed in 1902 to light his mansion with electricity.
1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 98
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna long thin board with one edge thicker than the other; used as siding by lapping one board over the board below
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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