rough-boardn.
/ˈrʌfbɔːd/, U.S. /ˈrəfˌbɔrd/ Chiefly U.S.
attributive. Designating something made of or covered by rough boarding.
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1851 Odd-fellows Offering 58 A rough-board coffin, the use of a horse and cart, and the sexton's services, were all that this poor family had received of public charity.
1857 J. G. Holland Bay-path iv. 39 He..took his seat upon a rough-board, temporary bench.
1888 Campaign Text Bk. (Democratic Party Nat. Comm.) xxix. 371 Consigned his ignorant countrymen to rough-board shanties..and straw beds.
1907 Rules & Regulations (U.S. Dept. Commerce & Labor) 246 Whitewash—On stone and brick work where a change in the natural color is authorized and on rough-board work.
1941 Wyoming: Guide to Hist. & People (Federal Writers' Project) iii. 260 High on this slope are sturdy rough-board houses, still propped by heavy timbers on the downhill side.
2003 A. Ronald Reader of Purple Sage i. ii. 24 Tonopah was a community of city people..who lived in roughboard houses and walked unpaved streets.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
rough-boardv.
/rʌfˈbɔːd/, U.S. /ˌrəfˈbɔrd/ Now rare.
transitive. To cover or provide (a building, wall, etc.) with rough boarding.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > surfacing or cladding > clad or cover [verb (transitive)] > clad or cover with woodwork
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1755 in A. F. Lucier French & Indian War Notices (2007) I. 163 A Barrack of 200 Feet long,..the outside to be rough boarded, with feathered edge Boards, and clapboarded.
1782 in A. M. Copeland Hist. Town of Murrayfield (1892) v. 88 To put in studds and raves for the present in the side of the gallery, and rough-board them, and make a seat convenient for the people to sit in.
1827 P. Hooker Contract 15 Jan. in D. G. Bucher Neat Plain Mod. Stile (1993) lxiii. 221 The roof [is] to be well boarded & shingled; the ends & rear rough boarded with common sound tally boards.
1833 Mechanics' Mag. 6 Apr. 7/2 I recommended that it should be rough boarded, and then covered with sheet iron.
1850 D. J. Browne Amer. Poultry Yard 87 Rough-board it [sc. the roof] from the apex downward by the sills to the ground.
1891 O. B. Maginnis Pract. Centring xv. 76 It is..a judicious practice to rough-board or cover the outside walls before raising the roof.
1909 F. T. Hodgson Light & Heavy Timber Framing 78 It is considered the better way to rough board the outside of the studding and then cover the boarding with good building paper.
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