weathertight
English
Alternative forms
- weather-tight
Adjective
weathertight (comparative more weathertight, superlative most weathertight)
- Sealed against the wind and rain.
- 1771, Tobias Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker,
- In one week, my house was made weather-tight, and thoroughly cleansed from top to bottom […]
- 1869, Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 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!
- 1976, Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick, Delacorte Press, Chapter 3, p. 35,
- Their brownstone still stands, and it is still snug and weathertight.
- 1771, Tobias Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker,
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