Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A long narrow board with one edge thicker than the other, overlapped horizontally to cover the outer walls of frame structures. Also called weatherboard.
- v. To cover with clapboards.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A long thin board, usually about 6 or 8 inches wide, used for covering the outside of a wooden building. Clapboards are nailed on with edges lapping clinker-fashion, as a weather-boarding. Also called, collectively, sheathing.
- n. A roofing-board about 4 feet long by 8 inches wide, and thicker on one edge than on the other, rived from a log by splitting it from the center outward. Also called shake.
- n. A stave for casks.
- To cover or sheathe with clapboards, as a house.
Wiktionary
- n. A narrow board, usually thicker at one edge than the other, used as siding for houses and similar structures of frame construction.
- n. Such boards, arranged horizontally and overlapping with thick edge down, collectively, as siding.
- n. An oak board of a size used for barrel staves.
- n. A clapper board; a device used in film production, having hinged boards that are brought together with a clap, used to synchronize picture and sound at the start of each take of a motion picture or other video production.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A narrow board, thicker at one edge than at the other; -- used for weatherboarding the outside of houses.
- n. A stave for a cask.
- v. To cover with clapboards.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a long thin board with one edge thicker than the other; used as siding by lapping one board over the board below
- v. cover with clapboards
Etymologies
- Partial translation of Dutch klaphout : klappen, to split, crack + Middle Dutch holt, board.
Examples
“Moreover, the great demand for beer-barrel stock made "clapboard" good and profitable return lading.”
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“The core of the hotel is concrete, while the "houses" that rise up it are timber and clapboard, meaning that many of the rooms, especially the suites, really do feel like individual and even authentic houses.”
“clapboard" roof -- on one side flanked by a rude horse-shed, on the other by a corn-crib of split rails.”
“My window shutters banged against the clapboard and then, I heard the sound again, this time with my eyes wide.”
“The buildings—a main house, a guest house and a garage—are clad in vertical bleached-cedar battens and clapboard, resulting in an unusual, gridlike effect that was inspired by traditional architecture in the Japanese cities of Kyoto and Kanazawa.”
“The buildings—a main house, a guest house and a garage—are clad in vertical, bleached cedar battens and clapboard, resulting in a gridlike effect that was inspired by traditional architecture in the Japanese cities of Kyoto and Kanazawa.”
“His characteristic themes are announced: a lonely clapboard house; a pedestrian under a streetlamp, seen from above; an isolated brownstone; a seamstress at a window.”
“They were sent to the northern hills of the Dominican Republic, a region of clapboard shacks and guitar-plucking farmers, and it was on a Christmas visit there that I first encountered the Loma Guaconejo cooperative.”
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“Willingham awoke from a nap one morning shortly before Christmas, 1991, to find his clapboard house engulfed in flames.”
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“Hills or the canyons of Wall Street, in the Nashville recording studios or the clapboard houses of Cambridge, Massachusetts - you see elites mastering”
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