a timber board, with a groove (rabbet) along the front of its top edge and along the back of its lower edge, that is fixedhorizontally with others to form an 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
Examples of 'weatherboard house' in a sentence
weatherboard house
Investigators were last night trying to discover the cause of the blaze which broke out in the dilapidated wooden weatherboard house in the early hours.
The Sun (2012)
Adele has gone all out and ordered a white weatherboard house that features three turrets, picket fence and even a veranda.
The Sun (2014)
Spread around little estuaries were colourful weatherboard houses on stilts.