weathertight

English

Alternative forms

• weather-tight

Etymology

weather +‎ tight

Adjective

weathertight (comparative more weathertight, superlative most weathertight)

1. Sealed against the wind and rain.
   • 1771, [Tobias Smollett], “To Dr. Lewis”, in The Expedition of Humphry Clinker […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] W. Johnston, […]; and B. Collins, […], →OCLC:

     In one week, my house was made weather-tight, and thoroughly cleansed from top to bottom […]

   • 1869, Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book‎^[1], New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 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, chapter 3, in Slapstick, Delacorte Press, page 35:

     Their brownstone still stands, and it is still snug and weathertight.

Synonyms

• weatherproof