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clapboard
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun clapboard has 1 sense
- clapboard(n = noun.substance) weatherboard, weatherboarding - a long thin board with one edge thicker than the other; used as siding by lapping one board over the board below; Array is a kind of siding
Derived form verb clapboard1
Verb clapboard has 1 sense
- clapboard(v = verb.contact) Array - cover with clapboards; Array is one way to cover
Derived form noun clapboard1
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CIDE DICTIONARY
clapboard, n.
- A narrow board, thicker at one edge than at the other; -- used for weatherboarding the outside of houses. [1913 Webster]
- A stave for a cask. Halliwell. [1913 Webster]
clapboard, v. t.
To cover with clapboards; as, to clapboard the sides of a house. Bartlett. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
clapboard, n. US = WEATHERBOARD.
Etymology
Anglicized f. LG klappholt cask-stave
THESAURUS
clapboard
Formica, Masonite, asphalt, beam, billet, blacktop, board, boarding, brick, canvas, carpeting, cobblestone, concrete, cord, cordwood, cork tile, deal, driftwood, fiber glass, firewood, flag, flagging, flagstone, flooring, hardwood, lath, lathing, lathwork, linoleum, log, lumber, macadam, panelboard, paneling, panelwork, pantile, paper, parquet, pavement, pavestone, paving, plank, planking, plasterboard, plyboard, plywood, pole, post, puncheon, roofage, roofing, roofing paper, shake, sheathing, sheathing board, sheeting, shingle, sideboard, siding, slab, slat, slate, softwood, splat, spun glass, stave, stick, stick of wood, stone, stovewood, tar paper, thatch, three-by-four, tile, tilestone, tiling, timber, timbering, timberwork, two-by-four, veneer, wainscoting, wallboard, walling, wallpaper, weatherboard, woodROGET THESAURUS
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Materials
N materials, material, raw material, stuff, stock, staple, adobe, brown stone, chinking, clapboard, daubing, puncheon, shake, shingle, bricks and mortar, metal, stone, clay, brick crockery, compo, composition, concrete, reinforced concrete, cement, wood, ore, timber, materials, supplies, munition, fuel, grist, household stuff pabulum, ammunition, contingents, relay, reinforcement, reenforcement, baggage, means, calico, cambric, cashmere, raw, wooden, adobe.Covering
VB cover, superpose, superimpose, overlay, overspread, wrap, encase, incase, face, case, veneer, pave, paper, tip, cap, bind, bulkhead, bulkhead in, clapboard, coat, paint, varnish, pay, incrust, stucco, dab, plaster, tar, wash, besmear, bedaub, anoint, do over, gild, plate, japan, lacquer, lacker, enamel, whitewash, parget, lay it on thick, overlie, overarch, endome, conceal, anodize, galvanize.
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