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weatherboard

[ weth-er-bawrd, -bohrd ]

noun

  1. an early type of board used as a siding for a building.
  2. Chiefly British. any of various forms of board used as a siding for a building.
  3. Nautical. the side of a vessel toward the wind.


verb (used with object)

  1. to cover or furnish with weatherboards.

weatherboard

/ ˈwɛðəˌbɔːd /

noun

  1. a timber board, with a groove (rabbet) along the front of its top edge and along the back of its lower edge, that is fixed horizontally with others to form an exterior cladding on a wall or roof Compare clapboard
  2. a sloping timber board fixed at the bottom of a door to deflect rain
  3. the windward side of a vessel
  4. Also calledweatherboard house a house having walls made entirely of weatherboards
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of weatherboard1

First recorded in 1530–40; weather + board
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Example Sentences

They could at least weatherboard them and make them more comfortable.

Weatherboard—that is, planks overlapping each other—was formerly much used for house-fronts, and possessed great durability.

It was a small four-roomed weatherboard cottage, with a bark roof, but very neatly put on.

Far otherwise is it with a weatherboard building overtaken by the same fate.

In the middle of the day we baited our horses at a little inn, called the Weatherboard.

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