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Clapboard   Listen
noun
Clapboard  n.  
1.
A narrow board, thicker at one edge than at the other; used for weatherboarding the outside of houses. (U. S.)
2.
A stave for a cask. (Eng.)





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"Clapboard" Quotes from Famous Books



... surroundings of Forlorn River, except on the river side, reminded Belding of the mushroom growth of a newly discovered mining camp. Tents were everywhere; adobe shacks were in all stages of construction; rough clapboard houses were going up. The latest of this work was new and surprising to Belding, all because he was a busy man, with no chance to hear village gossip. When he was directed to the headquarters of the Chase Mining Company he went thither ...
— Desert Gold • Zane Grey
... church in the hollow opposite the schoolhouse came in sight as they emerged from the woods at Sandy McLachlan's gate. It was a straight, clapboard structure, painted white, and standing in a forlorn-looking little field bare of trees. At one side stretched a long shed; at the other a grass-grown graveyard with leaning headstones. Inside there were also evidences ...
— 'Lizbeth of the Dale • Marian Keith


Words linked to "Clapboard" :   weatherboard, siding


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