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Clapboard


Definition:

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

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Seyðisfjörður, a beautiful small town of clapboard houses in Norwegian style “I was worried we would be bored,” says Berglind, “but in fact we get loads of people dropping in.
  • (2) The pristine white clapboard house, situated near the top of the hill on a secluded cul-de-sac, has raffia wallpaper and overstuffed leather couches.
  • (3) This no-frills atmosphere was in evidence at our first shack, Roy Moore Lobster Co in Rockport, Massachusetts, a classically pretty New England village – all clapboard houses and small craggy bays.
  • (4) Not far from of Elverum, 80 miles north of Oslo, a cluster of clapboard buildings, white and red, sits under a low mountain ridge at the end of a dirt track.
  • (5) Joanna Rakoff, author of the memoir all literary America is talking about, lives in a first-floor flat in a pretty but rather creaky clapboard house in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • (6) Esidronio Arreola never gave much thought to the well that so reliably pumped water to his traditional clapboard house in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas.
  • (7) Our conversation begins to tail off: the gloaming and the sense of anti-climax in the car are doing their work (the farm, all clapboard and rickety outbuildings, wasn't right for April and Ken; they want a beautiful place, so people can stay and attend cookery classes).
  • (8) Húsavik comes as a relief: it’s a pretty clapboard port with humpback whales and dolphins out in the bay, pizzas and cappuccino in town.
  • (9) Proyecto Azteca provided the financing to build Theresa and Emilio Azuara’s home, a clapboard structure in lime green that feels more spacious on the inside than it looks from the front.
  • (10) With its New England-style clapboard houses and pristine flagged walkways there is no evidence of the wrecking ball that has been knocking chunks out of the UK's traditional high streets.
  • (11) There were deer tiptoeing across the lawns of clapboard houses and a very friendly visitor centre.
  • (12) There are mosques with orange gates and lime roofs, clapboard shacks selling sweets to schoolchildren, and then, every so often, vast expanses of seeming desert.
  • (13) Until last year he was living with his wife, two children and two other relatives in a grey clapboard house in another Connecticut town, Shelton, with a well-kept garden and a white fence.
  • (14) You’ll get work with us.” A block to the north, the Cardenas siblings, who live in a clapboard house, faced the same obstacles but remained in school.

Clapperboard


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Graduating from the tea urn to 'number boy', snapping shut the clapperboard, his appetite to learn was voracious.
  • (2) There is a large wooden barn and a pretty white clapperboard house with a swimming pool in front.
  • (3) What I remember most was the creative and productive atmosphere on set: he was open to ideas from everyone, from the clapperboard operator upwards.
  • (4) An outdoor swimming tour of London – top 10 lidos and ponds Read more I spent the following day warmly clothed and behaving like a conventional tourist: admiring Skellefteå’s 17th-century clapperboard houses nestled, picture-perfect, between tall pine trees and all topped with snow.

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