Crossword clues for weatherboard
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Weatherboard \Weath"er*board`\, n.
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(Naut.)
That side of a vessel which is toward the wind; the windward side.
A piece of plank placed in a porthole, or other opening, to keep out water.
(Arch.) A board extending from the ridge to the eaves along the slope of the gable, and forming a close junction between the shingling of a roof and the side of the building beneath.
A clapboard or feather-edged board used in weatherboarding.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context nautical English) The windward side of a vessel. 2 (context nautical English) A plank placed over an opening to keep out driven water. 3 Any of a series of horizontal boards used to cover the exterior of a timber-framed building; clapboard. vb. (cx transitive English) To cover with a weatherboard.
WordNet
n. a long thin board with one edge thicker than the other; used as siding by lapping one board over the board below [syn: clapboard, weatherboarding]
the side toward the wind [syn: to windward, windward side, weather side]
Usage examples of "weatherboard".
The tech mouthed fear-words, palmed a primary switch on the weatherboard.
In them gray old weatherboards, that window looked black as a square hole, and crouched back of there was Grandpap Hamilton, muttering and agitating with his trigger.
Making little wedges with a dull knife, we drove them into the log with clubs, and split off long, thin strips, like the weatherboards of a house, and by the time we had split off our share of the log in this slow and laborious way, we had a fine lot of these strips.
As the cutter had weatherboards of some little height, the mystery was explained, no doubt remaining that her people lay behind the latter, in order to be protected from the rifles of the enemy.
The marble and neon stopped there, and the rest up to the roof was old weatherboards, brown and gray.
The houses, low and squat, had weatherboards painted a malevolent black, while the churches were visible far over the flat land.
The booking office was closed because upon this single-track line there were only two trains a day, but the station-master lived beside the station in a weatherboard house, and he asked there for Mr Shulkin.
All the buildings were severely practical, the walls of white-painted weatherboard, the roofs of corrugated iron painted with red oxide.