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   clapboard

   /ˈklapbɔːd/

   noun

   • 1. a long, thin, flat piece of wood with edges horizontally overlapping in series, used to cover the outer walls of buildings: North American "neat clapboard houses"
   • ▪ a house with outer walls covered in clapboards. North American

   Word Origin early 16th century (denoting a piece of oak used for barrel staves or wainscot): partial translation of Low German klappholt ‘barrel stave’, from klappen ‘to crack’ + holt ‘wood’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. clapboarded adjective

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