Weatherboard

Definitions: Weatherboard

Weatherboard

Noun

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

2. The side toward the wind.

Date "weatherboard" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Building & Civil Engineering	A cladding consisting of overlapping horizontal boarding. Source: European Union. (references)
	A plain wooden moulding fixed to the bottom rail of an external door to divert water from the threshold. Source: European Union. (references)
Food & Agriculture	A strake of thin planking fitted above the gunwale in open boats or around the edge of a cockpit. It increases the freeboard and keeps out the spray. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Weatherboard

Synonyms: clapboard (n), to windward (n), weather side (n), weatherboarding (n), windward side (n). (additional references)

Synonyms by domain: clapboard (building & civil engineering, industry), siding, wash strake (food & agriculture), washboard, waste board, weather-board (transportationbuilding & civil engineering, personal care & hotelsbuilding & civil engineering, industryfood & agriculture), weatherboarding (building & civil engineering, personal care & hotelsbuilding & civil engineering, industry).

Crosswords: Weatherboard

Specialty definitions using "weatherboard": composition-siding worker, COMPOSITION-WEATHERBOARD APPLIER. (references)

"Weatherboard" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Weatherboard" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	3	202,518

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "weatherboard"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		veshje me dërrasa (paneling, panelling), anë e anijes e kthyer nga era. (various references)

Chinese		封檐 (Weather-board, Weatherboarding). (various references)

Danish		vandbræt (weatherboarding), skvætbord (wash strake, washboard, waste board), klinkbeklædning (clapboard, siding, weatherboarding). (various references)

Dutch		zetboord (wash strake, washboard, waste board), potdekselen (clapboard, clapboard cladding, overlapped boarding, siding, weather boarding, weatherboarding), opboeisel (wash strake, washboard, waste board). (various references)

Finnish		vinovuorilaudoitus (clapboard, siding, weatherboarding), vinovuori (clapboard, siding, weatherboarding), vesilista (weatherboarding), varpelaita (wash strake, washboard, waste board), varpe (wash strake, washboard, waste board), varalaita (wash strake, washboard, waste board), lisälaita (wash strake, washboard, waste board), limilaudoitus (clapboard, siding, weatherboarding). (various references)

French		revêtement mural à clins (weatherboarding), rejet d'eau (weatherboarding), fargue. (various references)

German		Wetterschenkel (weatherboarding), Wasserbord (wash strake, washboard, waste board), Waschbord (wash strake, washboard, waste board), Stülpschalung (clapboard, clapboard cladding, overlapped boarding, siding, weather boarding, weatherboarding), Spülbord (wash strake, washboard, waste board), Setzbord (wash strake, washboard, waste board). (various references)

Greek		σελίδα (folio, page), νεροχύτης (sink). (various references)

Italian		rivestimento a tavole orizzontali embriciate (clapboard, siding, weatherboarding), falchetta (wash strake, washboard, waste board), falca (wash strake, washboard, waste board), asse di sgrondo (weatherboarding). (various references)

Manx		claare shellee, claare jeen. (various references)

Pig Latin		eatherboardway

Portuguese		lambrim em escama (clapboard, siding, weatherboarding), borracha (caoutchouc, rubber), borda de tempo (wash strake, washboard, waste board). (various references)

Russian		наветренный борт (weather-board). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		duga uzana daska. (various references)

Spanish		vierteaguas (boot, cross ditch, grip, gutter, let, water bar, weatherboarding), guardagua (wash strake, washboard, waste board), forros para paredes (clapboard, siding, weatherboarding), falca (wash strake, washboard, waste board). (various references)

Swedish		vattenlist (weatherboarding), lovartssida, fjällpanelbräda, fjällpanel (clapboard, weatherboarding). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "weatherboard": weatherboarded, weatherboarding, weatherboardings, weatherboards. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-e-e-h-o-r-r-t-w"
	-2 letters: threadbare.
	-3 letters: aberrated, arrowhead, brothered, deaerator, earthward, headwater.
	-4 letters: abhorred, arboreta, aweather, barehead, bartered, bothered, breathed, breather, drawbore, harbored, hardware, harrowed, rethread, teaboard, threader, wardrobe, waterbed, wheatear, wreathed.
	-5 letters: aborted, aborter, abrader, adherer, aerated, aerator, arbored, arrowed, awardee, awarder, barware, berated, berthed, bewared, boarder, borated, bowered, bowhead, breadth, breathe, broader, brother, debater, dewater, drawbar.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-b-d-e-e-h-o-r-r-t-w"
	+1 letter: weatherboards.
	+2 letters: weatherboarded.
	+3 letters: weatherboarding.
	+4 letters: weatherboardings.
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