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  • noun Plural form of weatherboard.

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Examples

  • These jobs include: replacing some of the weatherboards, replacing a totally rotted and holey window, replacing some other external window and door frames, moving a gate andfixing the fence, removing the ugly old air conditioner and patching the wall inside and out.

    Welcome « Mad Dave and Lil 2009

  • Luxury Real Estate New Zealand Architect John Blair made heavy use of plastered stonewalls and stained cedar weatherboards in designing the home, which has four bedrooms and occupies 550 square meters.

    Queenstown Contemporary 2011

  • These jobs include: replacing some of the weatherboards, replacing a totally rotted and holey window, replacing some other external window and door frames, moving a gate andfixing the fence, removing the ugly old air conditioner and patching the wall inside and out.

    2009 October « Mad Dave and Lil 2009

  • I used thirty-second of an inch balsa for a lot of applications, especially as it could be scribed into weatherboards (clapboard siding?) and with care into corrugated iron and provided it was painted with an oil based paint the scribed indentations became permanent.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Unexpected Problem – Finding Non Fluorescent White Paper 2009

  • The last scattered huts and weatherboards fell behind, the worked-out holes grew fewer, wooded rises appeared.

    Australia Felix 2003

  • His eyes ached, his brows had grown wrinkled from gazing on iron roofs set against the hard blue overhead; on dirty weatherboards innocent of paint; on higgledy-piggledy backyards and ramshackle fences; on the straggling landscape with its untidy trees — all the unrelieved ugliness, in short, of the colonial scene.

    Australia Felix 2003

  • Fashionable shops, two storeys high, stood next tiny, dilapidated weatherboards.

    Australia Felix 2003

  • The houses, low and squat, had weatherboards painted a malevolent black, while the churches were visible far over the flat land.

    Sharpe's Regiment Cornwell, Bernard 1986

  • It is used for framing, weatherboards, and joinery, and is an attractive timber for furniture and cabinetmaking.

    Chapter 8 1983

  • He fastened weatherboards along the rim of the canoe to prevent shipping water; he fitted it with a mast and sail, and coated it with tar; and while he was doing it the Admiral wrote a brief, businesslike letter to Ovando, telling of the sad plight they were in; he also wrote a long, rambling letter, full of evidence of feeble-mindedness, to the monarchs.

    Christopher Columbus Mildred Stapley Byne

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