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/ˈklabərd/,/ˈklapˌbôrd/,
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clapboards, plural;
  1. A long, thin, flat piece of wood with edges horizontally overlapping in series, used to cover the outer walls of buildings
    • - neat clapboard houses
  2. A house with outer walls covered in such pieces of wood

  1. a long thin board with one edge thicker than the other; used as siding by lapping one board over the board below
  2. cover with clapboards
  3. A clapperboard is a device used in motion picture and videotape production to assist in the synchronizing of picture and sound, and to designate and mark particular scenes and takes recorded during a production. ...
  4. A narrow board, usually thicker at one edge than the other, used as siding for houses and similar structures of frame construction; Such boards, arranged horizontally and overlapping with thick edge down, collectively, as siding; An oak board of a size used for barrel staves
  5. Overlapping, horizontal wood plank siding made from either rectangular planks or taped planks.
  6. A thin, narrow board with one edge thicker than the other, used as siding. CertainTeed siding brands offer clapboard-style siding in different exposures, several different textures, and even different panel projections.
  7. Tapered horizontal boards used as siding, thickest on their bottom edge; each overlaps the one below.
  8. A narrow wooden board, thinner at one edge than the other, applied horizontally to the exterior walls of buildings to form a weather-tight wall surface.
  9. A long thin board, thicker on one edge, overlapped and nailed on for exterior siding.
  10. Wood siding commonly used as an exterior covering on a building of frame construction; also known as lap siding.
  11. A board with a stick hinged on top.  The stick is pull up and pushed down onto the board making a loud clap.  Clapboards are used as markers for shots.  The clap creates a noise marker for when the action begins. ...
  12. Small board which holds information identifying a shot: working title of the movie, names of director and DP, scene and take numbers, date, and time. Used at the beginning of a take, the clapboard has a hinged stick which is "clapped" to provide audio/visual synchronization.
  13. Clapboards are thin, narrow boards of tapering cross-section applied horizontally as siding on wood-frame houses. Each clapboard overlaps the one below, so that no joints are exposed to the weather. Aluminum and vinyl siding in use today typically imitate clapboards.
  14. A board, thicker on one side than the other, used to overlap an adjacent board.
  15. Coils are pushed down over lower coils and appear to "hang over" each other in profile.
  16. A horizontal siding (board) of varying widths originally fabricated in wood. It is fabricated and installed so the board above easily overlaps or appears to overlap the board underneath.
  17. A board installed horizontally as the exterior wall covering of a building. Also called bevel siding.
  18. wood siding composed of horizontal, overlapping boards, the lower edges of which are usually thicker than the upper.
  19. (pronounced "Kla-bord") overlapping horizontal boards used as siding on wood-framed houses.  It is often wedge shaped with the narrower edge along the top and is called beveled siding.  In England it is called weatherboarding.
  20. A term used in the United States for weatherboarding overlapping horizontal boards covering a frame.