boardingnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈbɔː.dɪŋ/us/ˈbɔːr.dɪŋ/boards that have been fastened side by side to each other
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Building materials
- adobe
- airbrick
- asbestos
- asphalt
- bitumen
- brick
- flitch
- floorboard
- flooring
- hard core
- hardboard
- lacquer
- limestone
- razor wire
- reinforced concrete
- roofing
- rubble
- screed
- shingle
- siding
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Examples from literature
- Adjoining this enclosure was another and smaller one, formed of high boarding, within which appeared to be some sheds and outhouses.
- Further, because nobody was at hand to prevent it, we lost a good partition of feather-edge boarding.
- He reached around the end of the boarding and snapped the padlock.
- More often an entire new roof is needed and, in extreme cases, new boarding beneath.
- The walls and roof have double thickness of boarding and seaweed insulation on both sides of the frames.