weather-boarding

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weather-boarding.
1. Any external wall-cladding of overlapping horizontal timber boards.

2. True weather-boarding consists of sawn boards of rectangular section (i.e. with parallel sides), as distinct from riven clap-boards of triangular section.

Bibliography

Alcock,, Barley,, Dixon,, & and Meeson (1996);
C. M. Harris (1998)

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