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he covering of the outside wall of a frame house, whether made of weatherboards, vertical boarding with cleats, shingles, or the like.

se; noise and nothing else. Sense and not sound . . . must be the principle. Locke. Sound boarding, boards for holding pugging, placed in partitions of under floors in order to deaden sounds. -- Sound bow, in a series of transverse sections of a bell, that segment against which the clapper strikes, being the part whic…

See Sound boarding, under Sound, a noise.

grenades, and other materials of an offensive and suffocating smell, -- sometimes used in boarding an enemy's vessel.

g the framework of a house, ship, or other structure, in distinction from the covering or boarding. So they prepared timber . . . to build the house. 1 Kings v. 18. Many of the timbers were decayed. W. Coxe.

Oaken timber or boarding. [Obs.] A wedge wainscot is fittest and most proper for cleaving of an oaken tree. Urquhart. Inclosed in a chest of wainscot. J. Dart.

A clapboard or feather-edged board used in weatherboarding.