A covering to protect an object from injury, ‘spec. a box, cage or hut used for the proper exposure of meteorological instruments’ (Funk's Stand.…

Meteorology. A shelter which protects meteorological instruments from direct sunlight, precipitation, etc., (in later use) typically taking the…

a wooden box supported on a stand above the ground and made with doubly louvred sides and a double top with ventilation holes, so that…