clapboard
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Synonyms: clipboard, lapboard, cupboard, larboard, flipboard, chipboard, slipboard, clapboarded, clapboards
Antonyms: clipboard, lapboard, cupboard, larboard, flipboard, chipboard, slipboard, clapboarded, clapboards
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Noun
- A narrow board, usually thicker at one edge than the other, used as siding for houses and similar structures of frame construction.
- Such boards, arranged horizontally and overlapping with thick edge down, collectively, as siding.
- An oak board of a size used for barrel staves.
Verb
- To cover with clapboards.
- to clapboard the sides of a house
Noun
- A clapperboard; a device used in film production, having hinged boards that are brought together with a clap, used to synchronize picture and sound at the start of each take of a motion picture or other video production.
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