a timber board, with a groove (rabbet) along the front of its top edge and along the back of its lower edge, that is fixed horizontally with others to forman exterior cladding on a wall or roof
Compare clapboard
2.
a sloping timber board fixed at the bottom of a door to deflect rain
3.
the windward side of a vessel
4. Also called: weatherboard house mainly Australian and New Zealand
a house having walls made entirely of weatherboards
weatherboard in American English
(ˈwɛðərˌbɔrd)
noun
1.
a.
clapboard
b.
weatherboards collectively
2. Nautical
the windward side of a ship
verb transitive
3.
to cover with weatherboards
Examples of 'weatherboard' in a sentence
weatherboard
He wandered up the beach to the Coast Guard station, a grandiose weatherboard affair perched high on the frontal dune.