Weather strip
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Description
A narrow compressible strip of material placed between the edge of a door or window sill to exclude rain and wind. Weather strips are made from metal, wood, rubber, plastic, felt, or foam.
Synonyms and Related Terms
weather-strip; weatherstrip
Sources Checked for Data in Record
- Dictionary of Building Preservation, Ward Bucher, ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York City, 1996 Comment: weatherstrip
- Random House, Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, Grammercy Book, New York, 1997 Comment: weather strip
- The American Heritage Dictionary or Encarta, via Microsoft Bookshelf 98, Microsoft Corp., 1998 Comment: weather-strip