Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Clapboards considered as a group; siding.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A facing of thin boards, having usually a feather-edge, and nailed lapping one over another, used as an outside covering for the walls of a wooden building. They are practically the same as clapboards, but are distinguished from those by being larger and wider.
- noun The finish or woodwork at the base of a clapboarded wall.
- noun The whole exterior covering of a wall or roof, whether of weather-boards, clapboards, or shingles
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc.
- noun Boards adapted or intended for such use.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun architecture A type of wooden
siding in which a house is sided with long, thin,overlapping boards
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a long thin board with one edge thicker than the other; used as siding by lapping one board over the board below
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Examples
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Its windows are without glass, its doorways without doors; there are wide breaches in the shingle roof, and for lack of paint the weatherboarding is a dun gray.
Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories Ambrose Bierce 1878
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This seemed to be only a kind of weatherboarding, such as is sometimes used to finish the gable-ends of a roof in lieu of carrying up a brick wall.
Ralph Rashleigh 2004
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-- For outdoor buildings, such as garages, garden sheds, toolhouses, etc., "weatherboarding" is often preferred to ordinary matchboarding, chiefly because of the facility with which it throws off the rain.
Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. William Fairham
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Looks to me that Inhofe is saying something about something called “weatherboarding”.
Matthew Yglesias » Inhofe Kinda Sorta Admits Waterboarding is Torture 2010
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Does “weatherboarding” mean people are being tortured by global warming? pseudonymous in nc says:
Matthew Yglesias » Inhofe Kinda Sorta Admits Waterboarding is Torture 2010
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Cream weatherboarding, green detailing on doors and window frames and what is apparently a reproduction Southern enamel 'target' station sign made by a member of the nearby Spa Valley Railway.
Railway Echo No.3 Peter Ashley 2007
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Cream weatherboarding, green detailing on doors and window frames and what is apparently a reproduction Southern enamel 'target' station sign made by a member of the nearby Spa Valley Railway.
Archive 2007-09-01 Peter Ashley 2007
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With many windows, masses of weatherboarding and whitewashed stone.
Archive 2009-06-01 Eric Dickens 2009
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Its elegant use of humble materials – iron and weatherboarding – can still teach us a thing or two.
Railway Echo No.3 Peter Ashley 2007
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GWEN IFILL: Let me ask Senator Bond a little bit about this issue of weatherboarding.
HONEY-GLAZED CHICKEN SWIMMING ENHANCED TECHNIQUES AND AN ALTERNATIVE SET OF PROCEDURES News from Mad Plato 2007
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