[1625–35; weatherboard + -ing1]This word is first recorded in the period 1625–35. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: cabaret, consciousness, etch, functional, plastic-ing is a suffix of nouns formed from verbs, expressing the action of the verb or itsresult, product, material, etc. (the art of building; a new building; cotton wadding). It is also used to form nouns from words other than verbs (offing; shirting). Verbal nouns ending in -ing are often used attributively (the printing trade) and in forming compounds (drinking song). In some compounds (sewing machine), the first element might reasonably be regarded as the participial adjective, -ing, the compound thus meaning “a machine that sews,” but it is commonly taken as a verbalnoun, the compound being explained as “a machine for sewing”
Examples of 'weatherboarding' in a sentence
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The houses are envisaged as being timber-framed with wood-fibre insulation finished in weatherboarding.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
This might mean employing 'cosy' materials, such as brick and weatherboarding.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The developers have even re-created the plastic laminated wood-effect planks that on the miniature houses were intended to mimic weatherboarding.