matchboarding

[ mach-bawr-ding, -bohr- ]

noun

1. a construction of matchboards.
2. a quantity of matchboards.

Word History and Origins

Origin of matchboarding¹

First recorded in 1860–65; matchboard + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

But the matchboarding was not on the walls.

From Project Gutenberg

In the meantime, Edward Garden's own house was a very different place from those two cottages that Dafydd Dafis had taken his own good time about matchboarding.

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They took it at their leisure; they were "lads from a reight place," setting about a job as if they meant to finish it, not Welshmen matchboarding.

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Timbers groaned, a seam in the matchboarding opened and shut, and a dull concussion shook the boat when her bows plunged into the swell.

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The room was an annex of corrugated iron lined with matchboarding, but electric-light fittings depended from the iron ties overhead, and in place of an ordinary hearth was a sort of stage one, with an imitation log of asbestos, which, when you put a match to it, broke into a licking of blue and yellow gas-jets.

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