Its windows are without glass, its doorways without doors; there are wide breaches in the shingle roof, and for lack of paint the weatherboarding is a dun gray. From Wordnik.com. [Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories] Reference
This seemed to be only a kind of weatherboarding, such as is sometimes used to finish the gable-ends of a roof in lieu of carrying up a brick wall. From Wordnik.com. [Ralph Rashleigh] Reference
For outdoor buildings, such as garages, garden sheds, toolhouses, etc., "weatherboarding" is often preferred to ordinary matchboarding, chiefly because of the facility with which it throws off the rain. From Wordnik.com. [Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used.] Reference
With many windows, masses of weatherboarding and whitewashed stone. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
Well, I had to ease off a piece of weatherboarding, and I found them. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with John Wesley Snipes, 1976 September 20 and November 20. Interview H-98. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). By John Wesley Snipes] Reference
GWEN IFILL: Let me ask Senator Bond a little bit about this issue of weatherboarding. From Wordnik.com. [HONEY-GLAZED CHICKEN SWIMMING ENHANCED TECHNIQUES AND AN ALTERNATIVE SET OF PROCEDURES] Reference
Looks to me that Inhofe is saying something about something called “weatherboarding”. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Inhofe Kinda Sorta Admits Waterboarding is Torture] Reference
And our old two-storey house, the weatherboarding, of course, runs from the top to the bottom. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with John Wesley Snipes, 1976 September 20 and November 20. Interview H-98. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). By John Wesley Snipes] Reference
It is also employed as a light-duty building timber for uses such as framing and weatherboarding. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
Does “weatherboarding” mean people are being tortured by global warming? pseudonymous in nc says. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Inhofe Kinda Sorta Admits Waterboarding is Torture] Reference
Its elegant use of humble materials – iron and weatherboarding – can still teach us a thing or two. From Wordnik.com. [Railway Echo No.3] Reference
States Flickers sometimes chisel holes through the weatherboarding of ice-houses and make cavities for their eggs in the tightly packed sawdust within. From Wordnik.com. [The Bird Study Book] Reference
Cream weatherboarding, green detailing on doors and window frames and what is apparently a reproduction Southern enamel 'target' station sign made by a member of the nearby Spa Valley Railway. From Wordnik.com. [Railway Echo No.3] Reference
"What's the matter with you -- chunking weatherboarding at me like that?". From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco Road]
Through its rough weatherboarding the winds and snows of winter would howl. From Wordnik.com. [The Man in Gray] Reference
In spite of the gray monotone to which the paintless years had reduced the once white weatherboarding and green. From Wordnik.com. [The Colonel's Dream] Reference
I covered the lower part and he covered the higher part, and between us we covered about 800 square feet of weatherboarding with two coats. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman's Association for the Betterment of Public School Houses in North Carolina] Reference
Blount imported weatherboarding from North Carolina, his former home, with which to encase the huge log mansion built for him in Knoxville. From Wordnik.com. [Last of the Pioneers, Or Old Times in East Tenn.; Being the Life and Reminiscences of Pharaoh Jackson Chesney (Aged 120 Years).] Reference
She had lived so long in the house with Jeeter and Ada that she had been considered nothing more than a door-jamb or a length of weatherboarding. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco Road]
From the moistness of the atmosphere, the outside of the unpainted weatherboarding had a green damp appearance, and so far as the house itself was concerned, there was an air of great discomfort about the place. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Cringle's Log] Reference
Some few were built after the fashion of the better sort of cottages; but age had stamped its heavy traces upon their exterior: the green moss had gathered upon the roofs, and the coarse weatherboarding had broken, here and there, into chinks. From Wordnik.com. [Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. II.] Reference
March 15th, 2010 at 10: 59 am weatherboarding really? maybe that’s we we should call green economy obstructionists. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Inhofe Kinda Sorta Admits Waterboarding is Torture] Reference
“We don’t have one documented case of weatherboarding, or really torturing, depending on what you use as a definition.”. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Inhofe Kinda Sorta Admits Waterboarding is Torture] Reference
Page 140 not to mention a row of nails for dresses which are kindly overshadowed by a chintz curtain, another row for hats, caps, coats and bonnets, and still another for sundries; to fill up the picture it must be reccollected that the walls of our "home" are of rough, undressed weatherboarding without a ceiling, that the rafters and the posts of the house are of pine stripped of its bark, but otherwise undressed, and that neither windows nor doors have aught to close them but are merely openings in the wall. From Wordnik.com. [Diary, August 8, 1859-May 15, 1865.] Reference
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