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Meanings of weatherboarding in English

A long thin board with one edge thicker than the other; used as siding by lapping one board over the board below.

Synonyms
Examples for "clapboard"
Examples for "clapboard"
1
She went into the main room again and examined the clapboard ceiling.
The girl who played with fire
2
Then the houses begin, clapboard houses spaced thirty or so feet apart.
I am number four
3
She waved her hand toward some attractive old clapboard houses and said.
The new yorker
4
His gaze jumped to the clapboard house on top of the slope.
Duel
5
The horse had escaped from his master's small clapboard stable in Brooklyn.
Winter’s Tale
1
His weatherboard house was small and on the wrong side of modest.
News.com.au
2
It has a flat landscape of weatherboard homes perched on small sections.
Radio NZ
3
There were two late-model vehicles parked out front of the weatherboard bungalow.
Radio NZ
4
Jeanette had lived in a standalone weatherboard home on Discovery Place for 32 years.
Radio NZ
5
Some of them had weatherboard houses but the majority of them was log houses.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
Usage of weatherboarding in English
1
Through its rough weatherboarding the winds and snows of winter would howl.
The Man in Gray: A Romance of North and South
2
Built around 1770 outta cypress weatherboarding.
Carrion comfort
3
Yes, sir, for the wind was banging sunflowers as big as buggy wheels against the weatherboarding and the chicken coop was right under the window.
The Gentle Grafter
4
"What's the matter with you-chunkingweatherboarding at me like that?"
Tobacco Road
Weatherboarding through the time