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Weatherboard

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Noun

1. clapboard, weatherboard, weatherboarding

a long thin board with one edge thicker than the other; used as siding by lapping one board over the board below

2. to windward, weather side, weatherboard, windward side

the side toward the wind

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Weatherboard

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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 called: weatherboard house mainly Australian and New Zealand
a house having walls made entirely of weatherboards

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Weatherboard

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noun
1. 
a. 
clapboard
b. 
weatherboards collectively
2.  Nautical
the windward side of a ship
verb transitive
3. 
to cover with weatherboards

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Weatherboard

see synonyms of weatherboard
n.
See clapboard.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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