CLAPBOARD

Clapboard

Clapboard, also known as bevel siding or lap siding or weatherboard, is the cladding or ‘siding’ of a house by installing long thin wooden boards that overlap one another horizontally on the outside of the wall. They were originally riven in triangular or "feather-edged" section, attached thin side up and overlapped thick over thin.

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clapboard

Noun

  1. A narrow board, usually thicker at one edge than the other, used as siding for houses and similar structures of frame construction.
  2. Such boards, arranged horizontally and overlapping with thick edge down, collectively, as siding.
  3. An oak board of a size used for barrel staves.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. 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.

Verb

  1. To cover with clapboards.
    to clapboard the sides of a house


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