CLAPBOARD

n. v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A narrow board, thicker at one edge than at the other; -- used for weatherboarding the outside of houses. [U. S.]

2.
n.

A stave for a cask. [Eng.] Halliwell.

3.
v.

To cover with clapboards; as, to clapboard the sides of a house. [U. S.] Bartlett.