(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.
Clapstick
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Closer to the action – a circle of red dust to be kicked up with heels – the didgeridoo, clapsticks and singing were so raw, penetrating and ancient-sounding, I found myself suppressing tears.