clapboard

Noun (1)

clapboard (countable and uncountable, plural clapboards)

1. A narrow board, usually thicker at one edge than the other, used as siding for houses and similar structures of frame construction.
   • Its exterior is covered with clapboards stained dark brown.2007 September 28, Wendy Moonan, New York Times
2. (uncountable) Such boards, arranged horizontally and overlapping with thick edge down, collectively, as siding.
   • 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.1953 July, Allen Rowley, “First Impressions of American Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 492
   • Bond turned to the window and watched the pretty clapboard houses slip by as they approached Trenton. He loved trains and he looked forward with excitement to the rest of the journey.1954, Ian Fleming, “The Silver Phantom”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 100
3. (UK, archaic) An oak board of a size used for barrel staves.

Verb

clapboard (third-person singular simple present clapboards, present participle clapboarding, simple past and past participle clapboarded)

1. (transitive) To cover with clapboards.
   • to clapboard the sides of a house

Noun (2)

IPA/ˈklæpˌbɔː(ɹ)d/

clapboard (plural clapboards)

1. 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.

   Synonyms:

   clapperboard, clapstick, slate, slate board, sync slate, sticks, board, marker