overlayer

1. 1.

   protective covering consisting, for example, of a layer of boards applied to the studs and joists of a building to strengthen it and serve as a foundation for a weatherproof exterior

   Synonymssheathingoverlay

   Broaderprotective covering

Other forms of overlayer

plural

overlayers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about overlayer

What does overlayer mean?

overlayer means "protective covering consisting, for example, of a layer of boards applied to the studs and joists of a building to strengthen it and serve as a foundation for a weatherproof exterior".

How many syllables are in overlayer?

overlayer has 3 syllables: o-ver-layer. The stress falls on "o".

What is another word for overlayer?

Close synonyms include sheathing, overlay. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is overlayer a common word?

overlayer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.