clapboard

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: clap=board

CIDE DICTIONARY

clapboard, n. 

•  A narrow board, thicker at one edge than at the other; -- used for weatherboarding the outside of houses.  [1913 Webster]
•  A stave for a cask.  Halliwell.  [1913 Webster]

clapboard, v. t. 

 To cover with clapboards; as, to clapboard the sides of a house.  Bartlett.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

clapboard, n. US = WEATHERBOARD.

Etymology

Anglicized f. LG klappholt cask-stave

THESAURUS

clapboard

Formica, Masonite, asphalt, beam, billet, blacktop, board, boarding, brick, canvas, carpeting, cobblestone, concrete, cord, cordwood, cork tile, deal, driftwood, fiber glass, firewood, flag, flagging, flagstone, flooring, hardwood, lath, lathing, lathwork, linoleum, log, lumber, macadam, panelboard, paneling, panelwork, pantile, paper, parquet, pavement, pavestone, paving, plank, planking, plasterboard, plyboard, plywood, pole, post, puncheon, roofage, roofing, roofing paper, shake, sheathing, sheathing board, sheeting, shingle, sideboard, siding, slab, slat, slate, softwood, splat, spun glass, stave, stick, stick of wood, stone, stovewood, tar paper, thatch, three-by-four, tile, tilestone, tiling, timber, timbering, timberwork, two-by-four, veneer, wainscoting, wallboard, walling, wallpaper, weatherboard, wood

ROGET THESAURUS

clapboard

Materials

N materials, material, raw material, stuff, stock, staple, adobe, brown stone, chinking, clapboard, daubing, puncheon, shake, shingle, bricks and mortar, metal, stone, clay, brick crockery, compo, composition, concrete, reinforced concrete, cement, wood, ore, timber, materials, supplies, munition, fuel, grist, household stuff pabulum, ammunition, contingents, relay, reinforcement, reenforcement, baggage, means, calico, cambric, cashmere, raw, wooden, adobe.

Covering

VB cover, superpose, superimpose, overlay, overspread, wrap, encase, incase, face, case, veneer, pave, paper, tip, cap, bind, bulkhead, bulkhead in, clapboard, coat, paint, varnish, pay, incrust, stucco, dab, plaster, tar, wash, besmear, bedaub, anoint, do over, gild, plate, japan, lacquer, lacker, enamel, whitewash, parget, lay it on thick, overlie, overarch, endome, conceal, anodize, galvanize.