to clapboard

Examples

• All

• A well-built brick and clapboard tin-roofed structure with harmonious lines, it was, nonetheless, a relatively small, unpretentious mill owner's house, a farmhouse type duplicated often throughout the Commonwealth, particularly in this area of the earliest American settlement.

  Fiction book (2002)

• We lived outside town, in an old white-clapboard farmhouse.

  Fiction book (2000)

• The boy was in the front yard throwing a tennis ball against the second-story clapboard face, trying to catch it in his bare hands, but the ball took funny bounces, so he was having a rough time of it.

  Fiction book (1990)

• The highway runs on the near side of the ridge from the lake, and you got to Peter Jackson's by turning off on a little old dirt driveway that came up over the crest of the hill and dipped down on the other side to stop in front of Jackson's house, an old log house that had been clapboarded over and added on to a couple or three times.

  Fiction book (1990)

• The contractor decided to clapboard the house to protect it from the weather.

• They will clapboard the new studio to give it a rustic look.

Synonyms

P

to plank

vsto clapboard

2 6.0

To cover a path or floor with long flat boards

is done with long thin boards arranged to overlap for walls

P

to plank over

vsto clapboard

6.5

To cover a surface with wooden boards

is made with long thin boards that overlap on building sides

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