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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



... about seven feet square and as many feet in height, was built strongly of poles, with a small entrance closed by a clapboard door fastened stoutly on the outside with withes. The hut was well in the shadow of tepees, and all were still at the feasting and merrymaking. He cut the withes with two sweeps of his sharp hunting knife, opened the door, bent his head, stepped in and then ...
— The Scouts of the Valley • Joseph A. Altsheler
... semi-circular shape—a deep narrow stream forming the chord, and afterwards cleaving its way through the otherwise unbroken forest. In the convexity of the arc, at that point most remote from the water, stands the cabin—a log "shanty" with "clapboard" roof—on one side flanked by a rude horse-shed, on the other by a ...
— The Wild Huntress - Love in the Wilderness • Mayne Reid
... The little white frame clapboard house with the Dutch roof, standing on the northeast corner of King and Fairfax Streets was certainly the property of William Ramsay—probably his office or kitchen, and later occupied by the descendants of ...
— Seaport in Virginia - George Washington's Alexandria • Gay Montague Moore


Words linked to "Clapboard" :   cover, weatherboard, weatherboarding


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