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Weatherboarding

Weatherboarding \Weath"er*board`ing\, n. (Arch.)

  1. The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc.

  2. Boards adapted or intended for such use.

Wiktionary
weatherboarding

n. (context architecture English) A type of wooden siding in which a house is sided with long, thin, overlapping boards

WordNet
weatherboarding

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, weatherboard]

Usage examples of "weatherboarding".

It was not a time for talk of any kind, either when they were slowly and not quite smoothly dropping through the lugubrious upper part of the structure, where it was darkened by a rough weatherboarding, or lower down, where the unobstructed light showed the grim tearful face of the cliff, bedrabbled with oozy springs, and the audacious slightness of the elevator.