(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:31:44

Clap"board (?), 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.]

Halliwell.

 

© Webster 1913.

Clap"board, v. t.

To cover with clapboards; as, to clapboard the sides of a house.

[U. S.]

Bartlett.

 

© Webster 1913.

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