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Clapboard   /klˈæpbˌɔrd/   Listen
Clapboard

noun
1.
A long thin board with one edge thicker than the other; used as siding by lapping one board over the board below.  Synonyms: weatherboard, weatherboarding.





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"Clapboard" Quotes from Famous Books



... crumble, were renewed and a block house was built on the neck of the Island, to which point the savages were permitted to come for trade, but were prohibited from further passage by a garrison kept there. When not otherwise employed, the men spent their time fashioning clapboard and wainscoting from the trees cut ...
— Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century - Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklet Number 17 • Annie Lash Jester


Words linked to "Clapboard" :   siding, cover


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