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that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like clapboards on a house. See Lapstreak.

erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemy's boarders; -- called also close quarters. [Obs.]

object the standard yard is usually divided into quarters and nails. -- Cloth paper, a coarse kind of paper used in pressing and finishing woolen cloth. -- Cloth shearer, one who shears cloth and frees it from superfluous nap.

A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an illbred person; a boor. Sir P. Sidney.

The manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior. That plainness which the alamode people call clownishness. Locke.

A coarse, brutal fellow. [Obs.] Mir. for Mag.

ck, usually occupied by the captain. [Written also couch.] [Obs.] The commanders came on board and the council sat in the coach. Pepys.

To make or mend coarsely; to patch; to botch; as, to cobble shoes. Shak. "A cobbled saddle." Thackeray.

A coarse, composite weed, having a rough or prickly fruit; one of several species of the genus Xanthium; -- called also clotbur.

A light boat. To board the cockleshell in those plunding waters. W. Black.

The coarse tow of flax and hemp. McElrath.

A dealer in cogware or coarse cloth. [Obs.] Wright.

A tall, coarse grass (Imperata arundinacea) of the Philippine Islands and adjacent countries, used for thatching.

A coarse, narrow cloth, like frieze, used by the lower classes in the sixteenth century. Halliwell.

A coarsely granular variety of garnet.

er, attached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward, in advance of the plowshare and moldboard. [Written also coulter.]

To board together; to eat at a table in common.

that provided at a common table in colleges and universities. Their commons, though but coarse, were nothing scant. Dryden.

The conservator of the estate of an idiot. Bouvier. Conservators of the River Thames, a board of comissioners instituted by Parliament to have the conservancy of the Thames.

d exercise a control over all the departments of the executive administration. Macaulay. Board of control. See under Board.