weatherboarding

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a building's outer covering of long, usually overlapping boards designed to shed rain

   Several loose sections of weatherboarding had to be replaced before winter.

2. 2
   noun

   weatherboards considered collectively as a construction material

   The carpenter ordered enough weatherboarding to cover the new shed.

Formed in the seventeenth century from weatherboard + -ing. The boards overlap on an exterior wall so rain runs off, protecting the structure from the weather.

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