Clapboard

Quick meaning: Clapboard is a noun meaning A narrow board, usually thicker at one edge than the other, used as siding for houses and similar structures of frame construction.

Meaning

A narrow board, usually thicker at one edge than the other, used as siding for houses and similar structures of frame construction.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) Such boards, arranged horizontally and overlapping with thick edge down, collectively, as siding.
2. (transitive) To cover with clapboards.
3. (film) A clapperboard; 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.
4. (archaic, UK) An oak board of a size used for barrel staves.

Example Sentences

to clapboard the sides of a house

Its exterior is covered with clapboards stained dark brown.

As the train wound along the river valleys through western Pennsylvania the scenery grew more rugged and the painted houses of Lancaster County gave way to dirty clapboard dwellings and shack homes clinging to the mountainside.

Word Forms

• clapboards
• clapboarding
• clapboarded

Synonyms for clapboard

Depending on context, synonyms include weatherboard, clapperboard, clapstick, slate, sticks, board.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include weatherboarding, weatherboard, siding, shingle, slab, bord.

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