Weather-tight
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Weather-tight is an adjective meaning Alternative form of weathertight.
Meaning
Alternative form of weathertight.
Example Sentences
The house was weather-tight and warm, big fires blazed in every room.
[…] 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!
Some experts claim that it is a bad practice in stone buildings to build the window-frames in with the stone masonry of the wall, and that the openings should be carefully made, the stone wall being brought to a proper face, thoroughly pointed, and the window-frames put in afterward, if a weather-tight job is desired.
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