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masonite en · NOUN

Etymology

From Mason + -ite, after William H. Mason, who patented the process for making it.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) A type of hardboard formed using wooden chips and blasting them into long fibers with steam and then forming them into boards.
   • "Wobbling" is shaking a warped Masonite board to produce bizarre rhythmic sounds. 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 138:
   • Earl discovered a broken pane, an “escape exit,”, and they covered it with a splitting piece of Masonite. 1975, Larry Woiwode, Beyond the Bedroom Wall, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, page 385:
   • All recently-constructed coaches have varnished masonite panelling. 1952 May, “The Why and the Wherefore: Locomotive and Coach Livery , G.N.R. (I.)”, in Railway Magazine, page 358:

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Translations (5)

pl masonit (a type of hardboard) · sv masonit (a type of hardboard) · ru масони́т (a type of hardboard) · de Masonit (a type of hardboard) · da masonit (a type of hardboard)