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clapboard
1[ klab-erd, klap-bawrd, ‑-bohrd ]
adjective
- of or made of clapboard:
a clapboard house.
clapboard
/ ˈklæbəd; ˈklæpˌbɔːd /
noun
- a long thin timber board with one edge thicker than the other, used esp in the US and Canada in wood-frame construction by lapping each board over the one below
- ( as modifier )
a clapboard house
verb
- tr to cover with such boards
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Example Sentences
The taxi trundles away from the train station passing rows of gray houses with clapboard shutters into the French countryside.
A clapboard-covered porch extended across the entire front of the house, which faced westward toward Blue.
There he built a log cabin covered with a clapboard roof and the chimney was built on the outside of the primitive dwelling.
Their first home in this section was a log cabin with a slab floor and a clapboard roof.
Iron fire-shovels were a rarity among pioneers; they used, instead a broad, thin clapboard with one end narrowed to a handle.
It was a lost fragment of clapboard about four feet long, and with no house to it.
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