weather-tight

See also: weathertight

English

Adjective

weather-tight (comparative more weather-tight, superlative most weather-tight)

1. Alternative form of weathertight.
   • 1869, Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book‎^[1], New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1917, Part VI, lines 309-312, p. 215:

     […] There’s a rubble-stone
     Unfit for the front o’ the building, stuff to stow
     In a gap behind and keep us weather-tight;
     There’s porphyry for the prominent place. Good lack!

   • 1897, Francis C[ruger] Moore, “Inside the House”, in How to Build a Home: The House Practical; Being Suggestions as to Safety from Fire, Safety to Health, Comfort, Convenience, Durability, and Economy, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday & McClure Co., →OCLC, page 42:

     Some experts claim that it is a bad practice in stone buildings to build the window-frames in with the stone masonry of the wall, and that the openings should be carefully made, the stone wall being brought to a proper face, thoroughly pointed, and the window-frames put in afterward, if a weather-tight job is desired.

   • 2010, Elizabeth Gill, chapter 22, in Snow Hall, Sutton, Surrey: Severn House Publishers, →ISBN, page 193:

     The house was weather-tight and warm, big fires blazed in every room.