Definitions for clapboard

clapboard clap·board

Spelling: [klab-erd, klap-bawrd, ‐bohrd]
IPA: /ˈklæb ərd, ˈklæpˌbɔrd, ‐ˌboʊrd/

Clapboard is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 367 anagrams from letters in clapboard (aabcdlopr).

Definitions for clapboard

noun

  1. Chiefly Northeastern U.S. a long, thin board, thicker along one edge than the other, used in covering the outer walls of buildings, being laid horizontally, the thick edge of each board overlapping the thin edge of the board below it.
  2. British. a size of oak board used for making barrel staves and for wainscoting.
  3. a small board with a hinged stick attached that is clapped down at the beginning of the filming of a shot for use later in synchronizing sound and image in the editing of the film.

adjective

  1. of or made of clapboard:

Origin of clapboard

1510-20; earlier clap bord, alteration of obsolete clapholt Low German klappholt (cognate with Dutch klaphout) split wood used for barrel staves; see clap1

Examples for clapboard

It was a clapboard structure covered with a reed roof, and eighteen by thirty feet in size.

The Virginians dropped all thought of sassafras and clapboard.

The frow is driven through the wood by a wooden mallet, to the end that the sides of the clapboard may be fairly smooth.

He had men getting cedar, walnut and clapboard for buildings.

There he built a log cabin covered with a clapboard roof and the chimney was built on the outside of the primitive dwelling.

clapboard alternated with hastily constructed sheet-metal buildings with no room between.

Their first home in this section was a log cabin with a slab floor and a clapboard roof.

The taxi trundles away from the train station passing rows of gray houses with clapboard shutters into the French countryside.

It was a lost fragment of clapboard about four feet long, and with no house to it.

Under a sign, "Hotel," he entered a door in a clapboard house.

Word Value for clapboard
Scrable

16

Words with friends

20

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