单词 | weatherboard |
释义 | weatherboardn. 1. a. One of a series of boards nailed horizontally, with overlapping edges, as an outside covering for walls. Also collective singular. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > board or plank > for building > weatherboard weatherboard1539 clove-board1561 clapboard1641 cloe-board1666 siding1829 1539–40 in H. J. F. Swayne Churchwardens' Accts. Sarum (1896) 268 C fowt of whether borde to whetherborde the howes end. 1760 Philos. Trans. 1759 (Royal Soc.) 51 287 Some of the weather-boards were thrown outwards to the bottom of the garden. 1802 Barrington's Hist. New S. Wales x. 420 The stores were of brick, and the guard-house of weather-boards. 1845 J. O. Balfour Sketch New S. Wales 87 Settlers..have, according to their means, built of free-stone, brick, or weather-boards, cottages and houses. 1883 D. B. W. Sladen Austral. Lyrics 25 The other, sore-dinted, scarcely crawled to the sheltering weatherboards. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right I. vi. 150 The more ambitious buildings are of weather-board, sawn pine or hardwood boards, roofed with large sheets of galvanized iron. b. A board laid over builders' work or material as a protection. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > [noun] > board protecting work weatherboard1851 1851 B'ham & Midl. Gardeners' Mag. Apr. 30 Every heap [sc. of quick lime] being covered by mats or weatherboards. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) I. 195 Unfinished walls should be covered with straw, on which boards, called weather~boards, should be laid. c. A weatherboarded dwelling or other building. Australian. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > building of specific construction > [noun] framec1425 staddlec1563 sided1602 brick house1608 dobe1838 brick1844 adobe1852 shell1852 cinderblock1868 tin chapel1884 brick veneer1885 red brick1892 gambrel1917 weatherboard1925 Terrapin1949 Portakabin1963 1925 H. H. Richardson Fortunes Richard Mahony II. i. 123 Jerry and his bride had made ready their tiny weatherboard. 1935 L. Mann Human Drift xxxvi. 238 Magnificently the two stories of Geelong weatherboards, new that year, overlooked on the ridge. 1975 D. Malouf Johnno ii. 28 But our one-storeyed weatherboard wasn't the only one to be fortified. The whole city had taken on the aspect of an armed camp. 2. a. A board placed sloping over a window or other opening to throw off or keep out rain; †plural louver-boards; also, a board used to carry off water. ΘΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > wall of building > [noun] > structures for throwing off rainwater water board1372 water table1428 water tabling1520 weatherboard1568 weather-spar1632 throat1736 weathering1739 creasing1823 weather-table1839 dashboard1881 watershed1886 waterboarding1927 1568 in T. Wright Churchwardens' Accts. Ludlow (1869) 128 ij bordes to make wether bordes for the windowes in the steple. 1569 in T. Wright Churchwardens' Accts. Ludlow (1869) 138 iij bordes..ffor wetherbordes in the steple windowes. 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 210/2 Deliquiæ,..water boords, or weather bordes; gutters whereinto the house eaues doe drop. 1598 R. Hakluyt tr. A. Jónsson in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 577 The Cathedrall Church of Holen hauing..also beames and weather-bourdes, and the rest of the roofe proportionally answering to this lower building. 1744 Philos. Trans. 1742–3 (Royal Soc.) 42 498 A great Number of large Holes, regularly placed,..with Weather-boards placed over each Range of Holes, so as to hang over them obliquely downwards. 1818 T. Moore Fudge Family in Paris iii. 80 Such hats!—fit for monkeys—I'd back Mrs. Draper To cut neater weather-boards out of brown paper. 1833 T. Hook Snowdon xii, in Love & Pride III. 231 Rattle went all the windows—slap went the weather boards [of an omnibus]. 1892 Dict. Archit. (Archit. Publ. Soc.) Weather board, a board fixed..at the bottom of a door or window, to keep out driving rain. b. Nautical. (See quots.) ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > devices to protect ship from weather > board to keep water out set board1512 waist-board1627 washboard1753 water board1758 weatherboard1772 wash-strake1809 splash-board1907 1772 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S. Amer. (ed. 3) II. 304 On the 30th we took down our weather-boards. 1815 W. Burney Falconer's New Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) Weather-boards, are pieces of plank placed in the ports of a ship, when laid up in ordinary; they are fixed..so as to turn off the rain without preventing the circulation of the air. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 1908 H. Paasch From Keel to Truck (ed. 4) 546 Weather-boards,..boards fitted closely together..in front or on the sides of a bridge, poop or raised quarter~deck. 3. Nautical. [See weather n. Compounds 3 and board n. 12. Compare Icelandic veðr-borð.] The windward side of a ship. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > side(s) of vessel > [noun] > towards wind luff?a1400 weather side1399 weatherboard1644 1644 H. Mainwaring Sea-mans Dict. 12 The weather~boord, that is as much as to say, to windward. 1706 in Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Derivatives ˈweatherboard v. (transitive) to nail weatherboards upon (a wall or roof); also absol. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > build or provide with specific parts [verb (transitive)] > roof > provide with waterbarges or weatherboards weatherboard1535 waterbarge1558 1535–6 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 370 Paid ffor viij c di. of borde ffor to wederborde the sowth side of wolston wynnys howse. 1737 E. Hoppus Salmon's Country Builder's Estimator (ed. 2) 16 To build a Barn with all new Oak-Timber, to thatch, underpin, and weather-board with Feather-edged Deals. ˈweatherboarded adj. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > building of specific construction > [adjective] wandedc1593 brick-built1596 rock-built1596 mud-walled1607 sedgy1624 sodden1639 nogged1688 frame1760 logged1784 stucco1786 weatherboarded1794 piled1795 thick-walled1820 clapboarded1835 board-built1837 pebble-dashed1839 puncheoned1843 timber-framed1843 betimbered1847 pile-built1851 massy1855 bamboo-walled1858 portable1860 half-timber1874 stone-faced1874 Red River frame1879 ashlared1881 granolithic1881 brick-end1883 converted1888 steel frame1898 board-and-bat1902 traviated1902 steel-framed1906 prefabricated1921 prefab1937 multiwall1940 pre-engineered1955 curtain-walled1959 pre-fabbed1959 timber-frame1967 system-built1968 flat-pack1982 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [adjective] > made of boards or planks > of type of board rough-boarded1789 weatherboarded1794 sparred1805 clapboarded1835 matchboarded1894 1613 in Southampton Court Leet Rec. (1905) 464 The Towne howse now in the tenure of Thomas beare..would requier to be weather~boorded. 1794 W. Marshall in Rural Econ. W. Eng. (1796) II. 211 Farm houses..; with weatherboarded barns. 1847 J. D. Lang Phillipsland 283 A neat, comfortable, weather-boarded cottage. ˈweatherboarding n. the work of covering a building with weatherboards; also concrete, weatherboards collectively. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > surfacing or cladding > [noun] > cladding with boards or panels weatherboarding1515 wainscoting1580 1515 in G. W. Kitchin Compotus Rolls St. Swithun's, Winchester (1892) 461 Et in solutis duobus carpentariis conductis ad wetherbordandum finem coquinæ. 1632 in E. B. Jupp Carpenters' Co. (1887) 300 The boarding and weatherboarding of howses shedds and hovells. 1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 285 Weather~boarding..is us'd to signifie the Boards themselves, when nail'd up. 1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 48 The outside covered over with strong weather~boarding. 1885 Harper's Mag. Mar. 606/1 Narrow strips of weather-boarding. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021). > as lemmasweather-board a. The side of a ship. (See aboard adv. and prep.) Now only in phrases, as within board, without board; over (the) board, over the ship's side, out of the ship, into the sea; weather-board (see quot.). (See also the following, and cf. larboard n. and adj., starboard n., adj., and adv., etc.) ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > [phrase] > on board ship > not without boardOE society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [phrase] > on outside of ship without boardOE society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > side(s) of vessel > [noun] boardOE sideOE shipboardc1200 broadside1591 beama1665 society > travel > travel by water > [phrase] > on board ship within board?a1400 a shipboard1488 on board1688 of shipboard1840 society > travel > travel by water > [phrase] > on board ship > over the side of a ship over (the) boardc1430 by the board1630 OE Genesis 1354 Þa beutan beoð earce bordum. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 761 Ne cume ȝe neauer wi[ð]-vten scipes bord. ?a1400 Morte Arth. 1699 Broghte us..to Bretayne..with-in [s]chippe-burdez. c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 211 Berez me [Jonah] to þe borde & baþeþes me þer-oute. c1420 Chron. Vilod. 867 Fast by þe shippus bord. c1430 Syr Gener. 364 Shuld cast hem ouer the ship bord. 1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur (1816) II. 328 They came within board. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) 478 Huon..stode lenynge ouer the shyppe bord beholding the see. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) iii. x. 21 And within burd hess brocht That faithful Greik. 1630 J. Wadsworth Eng. Spanish Pilgrime (new ed.) v. 38 They..brought vs from the Prow to the board of the Gally to helpe them in rowing. 1652 T. Froysell Gale of Opportunity 31 The Marriners they cast him over Ship-board. 1829 F. Marryat Naval Officer I. x. 293 I..kept..my anger within board. 1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 160 Without-board, without the ship. Within-board, within the ship. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Weather-board, that side of the ship which is to windward. < n.1515 as lemmas |
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