Clapboard: Definition and part of speech

Clapboard

  1. v. t. To cover with clapboards; as, to clapboard the sides of a house.
  2. n. A narrow board, thicker at one edge than at the other; — used for weatherboarding the outside of houses.
  3. n. A stave for a cask.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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