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Weatherboard

noun

A long thin board with one edge thicker than the other; used as siding by lapping one board over the board below. Synonyms: clapboard, weatherboarding.

The side toward the wind. Synonyms: to windward, weather side, windward side.

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"Weatherboard" Quotes from Famous Books

... Meekin was visiting was long and low, roofed with iron, and terminating at each end in the stone wall of the gaol. At one side rose the cells, at the other the outer wall of the prison. From the outer wall projected a weatherboard under-roof, and beneath this were seated forty heavily-ironed convicts. Two constables, with loaded carbines, walked up and down the clear space in the middle, and another watched from a sort of sentry-box built against the main wall. Every half-hour ...

— For the Term of His Natural Life • Marcus Clarke

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Words linked to "Weatherboard" : windward, siding