masonite

See also: Masonite

English

Alternative forms

• Masonite

Etymology

From Mason +‎ -ite, after William H. Mason, who patented the process for making it.

Noun

masonite (uncountable)

1. A type of hardboard formed using wooden chips and blasting them into long fibers with steam and then forming them into boards.
   • 1952 May, “The Why and the Wherefore: Locomotive and Coach Livery , G.N.R. (I.)”, in Railway Magazine, page 358:

     All recently-constructed coaches have varnished masonite panelling.

   • 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 138:

     "Wobbling" is shaking a warped Masonite board to produce bizarre rhythmic sounds.

Translations

a type of hardboard

• Danish: masonit c
• German: Masonit
• Russian: масони́т m (masonít)
• Swedish: masonit (sv) c

Anagrams

• amniotes, Maniotes, ominates, somniate, anomites, intasome, Maisonet, moaniest