weatherboarding

English

weatherboarding (countable and uncountable, plural weatherboardings)

(architecture) A type of wooden siding in which a house is sided with long, thin, overlapping boards.
- 1952, Neville Shute, chapter 1, in The Far Country‎^[1], London: Heinemann:
  He stayed with him some time talking about the three-roomed house for Mario, and arranged for him to come and measure up for the timber and weatherboarding required.
- 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 98:
  Upstream from the house is a watermill, cased in gleaming white weather-boarding, which has been restored to working order. Near by is the water-driven turbine which [Rudyard] Kipling had installed in 1902 to light his mansion with electricity.