masonite

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

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masonite (uncountable)

  1. A type of hardboard formed using wooden chips and blasting them into long fibers with steam and then forming them into boards.
    • 1952 May, “The Why and the Wherefore: Locomotive and Coach Livery , G.N.R. (I.)”, in Railway Magazine, page 358:
      All recently-constructed coaches have varnished masonite panelling.
    • 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 138:
      "Wobbling" is shaking a warped Masonite board to produce bizarre rhythmic sounds.

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