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the original siding flex — overlapping planks that taught water which way is out.
means A long, thin board, usually fixed horizontally and overlapping the one below it, used to clad the outside of a building so rain runs off the wall.
from A plain compound of "weather" and "board" — and here "weather" carries its old sense not just of conditions in the sky but of the wear and battering that wind and rain inflict, the same sense that gives us a "weathered" face. So a weatherboard is literally a board set against the weather, its job spelled out in its name. The word has long been at home in British and especially Australian and New Zealand building talk, where the North American equivalent is more often "clapboard" — itself from an old word for a split or riven board.
- the overlap
- Each board sheds rain onto the one below
- old word
- Called clapboard in America, riven by hand
- colonial favorite
- Defined entire Australian and New England towns
- weather verb
- To weather means to slope for runoff
- cheap armor
- Thin timber that outlasted centuries of storms
weatherboard in san francisco — iconic victorian and edwardian homes with horizontal wooden siding throughout the city's neighborhoods