clapboard Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a long thin board with one edge thicker than the other; used as siding by lapping one board over the board below
    weatherboard; weatherboarding.
  2. verb cover with clapboards

WordNet

Clap"board noun
Definitions
  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.
Clap"board transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To cover with clapboards; as, to clapboard the sides of a house. U. S. Bartlett.

Webster 1913