rough-boardedadj.
/rʌfˈbɔːdᵻd/, U.S. /ˌrəfˈbɔrdəd/ Covered with or made of rough board.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [adjective] > made of boards or planks > of type of board
rough-boarded1789
weatherboarded1794
sparred1805
clapboarded1835
matchboarded1894
1789 N. Portlock Voy. round World xiii. 280 About twelve..feet from the ground there was a rough boarded floor... In the middle of this floor an Indian chest was deposited.
1835 J. Abbott Fire-side Piety ii. iii. 149 No litter was allowed to accumulate upon the rough-boarded floor.
1863 Harper's Mag. Jan. 281/2 A little wooden shanty,..which upon the outside has the air of a neat and graceful summer-house,..but upon the inside is a rough-boarded room.
1911 E. R. Williams Plain-towns Italy vii. 233 Ladder-like stairs mounting from successive rough-boarded floors to similar ceilings.
1993 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 20 May 3 A small rough-boarded country church with a dirt floor.
2004 S. Emmitt & C. Gorse Barry's Introd. Constr. Buildings (2005) vi. 257 Buildings..timber framed and rough boarded.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1789