weatherboard

English

Etymology

weather +‎ board

Noun

weatherboard (plural weatherboards)

1. (nautical) The windward side of a vessel.
2. (nautical) 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.
   • 1952, Neville Shute, chapter 1, in The Far Country‎^[1], London: Heinemann:

     The homestead lies half a mile from the road, a small bungalow built of weatherboard with an iron roof and with verandas on three sides […]

Translations

nautical: windward side of vessel

• Bulgarian: наветрен борд m (navetren bord)
• Finnish: ylähanka (fi), luuvartti (fi)

nautical: plank placed over an opening

clapboard

• Finnish: ulkolauta
• German: Schindel (de) f
• Irish: síonchlár m

Verb

weatherboard (third-person singular simple present weatherboards, present participle weatherboarding, simple past and past participle weatherboarded)

1. (transitive) To cover with a weatherboard.

Translations

To cover with a weatherboard

• German: verschalen (de), abdichten (de)

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