a. [f. WIND sb.1 + TIGHT a.]
1. Solidly constructed so as to keep out wind: chiefly of a building; also of a vessel = AIR-TIGHT.
1507. [see TIGHT a. 2 a].
1514, etc. [see WATERTIGHT 1].
1623. Extr. Aberd. Reb. (1848), II. 383. The grammar schole … is nather watterthicht nor wyndthicht to the great hinderance of the studentis within the same.
1647. N. Ward, Simple Cobler, 33. For England, however, the upper Stories are shroadly shattred; yet the foundations and frame being good or mendable by the Architectors now at worke, there is good hope, when peace is setled, people shall dwell more wind-tight and water tight than formerly.
1718. Chamberlayne, Relig. Philos., II. xvii. § 10. I … took a Tin Tube … but found … that it was not compleatly Wind-tight.
1867. Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., Wind-tight, a cask or vessel to contain water is said to be wind-tight and water-tight.
† 2. Naut. = Wind-taut (see WIND sb.1 31). Obs.
1642. Sir W. Monson, Naval Tracts, II. (1704), 301/1. They … cut down … Things over-head, which makes them wind Tite and Burthensome.
