Definition of clapboard in English:

clapboard

noun ˈklapbɔːdˈklabəd

North American

1A long, thin, flat piece of wood with edges horizontally overlapping in series, used to cover the outer walls of buildings.
〈主北美〉（覆盖外墙的）楔形护墙板
as modifier neat clapboard houses
几幢整齐安有楔形护墙板的房子。
Example sentencesExamples
- James pointed to a white clapboard building around the corner.
- Huddled clapboard houses substitute for the raw-plank architecture of the frontier town; an industrial bridge provides background sublimity in the absence of mountains.
- The clapboard house had caved in and surrendered to saplings and vines.
- A lot of the clapboard on the north end of the house should be replaced.
- The old districts with their brick sidewalks are full of lovely clapboard houses built by sea captains.
- Could he really have been on his way to join Nathaniel's mother in her clapboard house outside Philadelphia?
- This courthouse consisted of a two-story woodframe building covered with clapboards, resting on a foundation of stone blocks.
- On March 20, 1854, the Republican Party formally came into being in this white clapboard building.
- Within ten minutes the stagecoach rocked back into motion and sent a cloud of dust and dirt and grit billowing skywards across the yard towards the gray clapboard building.
- Eventually, we're directed to a clapboard hut on the edge of town where a pair of women in bright turbans stir two large cauldrons with paddles.
- In the clapboard houses radiating out from the youth center in San Jose, multiple families wedge themselves into cramped rooms and small garages.
- I step over the yard toys and around the cross-country skis to reach the front door of the clapboard house on the shore of Lake Champlain.
- Tombstone, an easy day trip from Tucson, does however offer one vision of Arizona's pioneer days: clapboard and adobe buildings, and, of course, re-enacted gunfights.
- The 41-year-old film maker had his own confusing memories of his father's infrequent visits, mostly nocturnal, to his mother's clapboard flat in Philadelphia.
- There are no green-covered trees to shelter us from the icy north blasts, just the weathered clapboard of this rickety house.
- The classical material of American building is wood and the characteristic structure is clapboard, frame surfaces of overlapping strips.
- As a result, the cottages echo the hotel's classical Georgian architecture, but vernacular details such as clapboard siding and wood porches are also evident.
- We passed one simple building after another, made of teak or covered with clapboards painted in pastel blue, yellow, peach or mint green.
- White-painted cedar clapboards cover its gabled forms, which are topped by classic standing-seam metal roofs.
- A retired farmwife emerged from her white clapboard house with a hearty midwestern hello.
1. 1.1informal A house with outer walls covered in clapboards.
  〈非正式〉用楔形护墙板覆盖外墙的房子
  Example sentencesExamples
  She reminded me of one of those beauties who sometimes emerge from hard country clapboards or trash-strewn double-wides.

Derivatives

clapboarded

adjective

North American

Both buildings are square, clapboarded, five-bay structures with hipped roofs and molded cornices in the early Federal style.
Example sentencesExamples
- The two-and-one half story, five-bay, clapboarded house has been considerably altered since its completion in 1794, and now has a mid-nineteenth-century recessed main entrance and a late nineteenth-century porch on the east end.
- According to the Reverend Rose's only child, Helen Cromwell Rose, he was drawn to the old clapboarded and shingled farmhouse that stood on the property ‘Its wealth of tradition was deeply welded into my father's heart,’ she wrote.
- The town of Hancock is especially distinguished for its beautiful Federal style houses, some of them brick and some clapboarded.
- Perhaps inspired by the elegant Georgian style houses he recalled from his boyhood in Haverhill, Massachusetts, he trimmed his two-story clapboarded house with quoins and a cornice with dentils.

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'.

Definition of clapboard in US English:

clapboard

noun

North American

1A long, thin, flat piece of wood with edges horizontally overlapping in series, used to cover the outer walls of buildings.
〈主北美〉（覆盖外墙的）楔形护墙板
as modifier neat clapboard houses
几幢整齐安有楔形护墙板的房子。
Example sentencesExamples
- A retired farmwife emerged from her white clapboard house with a hearty midwestern hello.
- There are no green-covered trees to shelter us from the icy north blasts, just the weathered clapboard of this rickety house.
- Within ten minutes the stagecoach rocked back into motion and sent a cloud of dust and dirt and grit billowing skywards across the yard towards the gray clapboard building.
- A lot of the clapboard on the north end of the house should be replaced.
- Huddled clapboard houses substitute for the raw-plank architecture of the frontier town; an industrial bridge provides background sublimity in the absence of mountains.
- The clapboard house had caved in and surrendered to saplings and vines.
- In the clapboard houses radiating out from the youth center in San Jose, multiple families wedge themselves into cramped rooms and small garages.
- As a result, the cottages echo the hotel's classical Georgian architecture, but vernacular details such as clapboard siding and wood porches are also evident.
- Eventually, we're directed to a clapboard hut on the edge of town where a pair of women in bright turbans stir two large cauldrons with paddles.
- On March 20, 1854, the Republican Party formally came into being in this white clapboard building.
- We passed one simple building after another, made of teak or covered with clapboards painted in pastel blue, yellow, peach or mint green.
- Tombstone, an easy day trip from Tucson, does however offer one vision of Arizona's pioneer days: clapboard and adobe buildings, and, of course, re-enacted gunfights.
- The 41-year-old film maker had his own confusing memories of his father's infrequent visits, mostly nocturnal, to his mother's clapboard flat in Philadelphia.
- James pointed to a white clapboard building around the corner.
- This courthouse consisted of a two-story woodframe building covered with clapboards, resting on a foundation of stone blocks.
- White-painted cedar clapboards cover its gabled forms, which are topped by classic standing-seam metal roofs.
- I step over the yard toys and around the cross-country skis to reach the front door of the clapboard house on the shore of Lake Champlain.
- The classical material of American building is wood and the characteristic structure is clapboard, frame surfaces of overlapping strips.
- Could he really have been on his way to join Nathaniel's mother in her clapboard house outside Philadelphia?
- The old districts with their brick sidewalks are full of lovely clapboard houses built by sea captains.
1. 1.1informal A house with outer walls covered in clapboards.
  〈非正式〉用楔形护墙板覆盖外墙的房子
  Example sentencesExamples
  She reminded me of one of those beauties who sometimes emerge from hard country clapboards or trash-strewn double-wides.

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’.

单词	clapboard
释义	Definition of clapboard in English: clapboard noun ˈklapbɔːdˈklabəd North American 1A long, thin, flat piece of wood with edges horizontally overlapping in series, used to cover the outer walls of buildings. 〈主北美〉（覆盖外墙的）楔形护墙板 as modifier neat clapboard houses 几幢整齐安有楔形护墙板的房子。 Example sentencesExamples James pointed to a white clapboard building around the corner. Huddled clapboard houses substitute for the raw-plank architecture of the frontier town; an industrial bridge provides background sublimity in the absence of mountains. The clapboard house had caved in and surrendered to saplings and vines. A lot of the clapboard on the north end of the house should be replaced. The old districts with their brick sidewalks are full of lovely clapboard houses built by sea captains. Could he really have been on his way to join Nathaniel's mother in her clapboard house outside Philadelphia? This courthouse consisted of a two-story woodframe building covered with clapboards, resting on a foundation of stone blocks. On March 20, 1854, the Republican Party formally came into being in this white clapboard building. Within ten minutes the stagecoach rocked back into motion and sent a cloud of dust and dirt and grit billowing skywards across the yard towards the gray clapboard building. Eventually, we're directed to a clapboard hut on the edge of town where a pair of women in bright turbans stir two large cauldrons with paddles. In the clapboard houses radiating out from the youth center in San Jose, multiple families wedge themselves into cramped rooms and small garages. I step over the yard toys and around the cross-country skis to reach the front door of the clapboard house on the shore of Lake Champlain. Tombstone, an easy day trip from Tucson, does however offer one vision of Arizona's pioneer days: clapboard and adobe buildings, and, of course, re-enacted gunfights. The 41-year-old film maker had his own confusing memories of his father's infrequent visits, mostly nocturnal, to his mother's clapboard flat in Philadelphia. There are no green-covered trees to shelter us from the icy north blasts, just the weathered clapboard of this rickety house. The classical material of American building is wood and the characteristic structure is clapboard, frame surfaces of overlapping strips. As a result, the cottages echo the hotel's classical Georgian architecture, but vernacular details such as clapboard siding and wood porches are also evident. We passed one simple building after another, made of teak or covered with clapboards painted in pastel blue, yellow, peach or mint green. White-painted cedar clapboards cover its gabled forms, which are topped by classic standing-seam metal roofs. A retired farmwife emerged from her white clapboard house with a hearty midwestern hello. 1.1informal A house with outer walls covered in clapboards. 〈非正式〉用楔形护墙板覆盖外墙的房子 Example sentencesExamples She reminded me of one of those beauties who sometimes emerge from hard country clapboards or trash-strewn double-wides. Derivatives clapboarded adjective North American Both buildings are square, clapboarded, five-bay structures with hipped roofs and molded cornices in the early Federal style. Example sentencesExamples The two-and-one half story, five-bay, clapboarded house has been considerably altered since its completion in 1794, and now has a mid-nineteenth-century recessed main entrance and a late nineteenth-century porch on the east end. According to the Reverend Rose's only child, Helen Cromwell Rose, he was drawn to the old clapboarded and shingled farmhouse that stood on the property ‘Its wealth of tradition was deeply welded into my father's heart,’ she wrote. The town of Hancock is especially distinguished for its beautiful Federal style houses, some of them brick and some clapboarded. Perhaps inspired by the elegant Georgian style houses he recalled from his boyhood in Haverhill, Massachusetts, he trimmed his two-story clapboarded house with quoins and a cornice with dentils. 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'. Definition of clapboard in US English: clapboard noun North American 1A long, thin, flat piece of wood with edges horizontally overlapping in series, used to cover the outer walls of buildings. 〈主北美〉（覆盖外墙的）楔形护墙板 as modifier neat clapboard houses 几幢整齐安有楔形护墙板的房子。 Example sentencesExamples A retired farmwife emerged from her white clapboard house with a hearty midwestern hello. There are no green-covered trees to shelter us from the icy north blasts, just the weathered clapboard of this rickety house. Within ten minutes the stagecoach rocked back into motion and sent a cloud of dust and dirt and grit billowing skywards across the yard towards the gray clapboard building. A lot of the clapboard on the north end of the house should be replaced. Huddled clapboard houses substitute for the raw-plank architecture of the frontier town; an industrial bridge provides background sublimity in the absence of mountains. The clapboard house had caved in and surrendered to saplings and vines. In the clapboard houses radiating out from the youth center in San Jose, multiple families wedge themselves into cramped rooms and small garages. As a result, the cottages echo the hotel's classical Georgian architecture, but vernacular details such as clapboard siding and wood porches are also evident. Eventually, we're directed to a clapboard hut on the edge of town where a pair of women in bright turbans stir two large cauldrons with paddles. On March 20, 1854, the Republican Party formally came into being in this white clapboard building. We passed one simple building after another, made of teak or covered with clapboards painted in pastel blue, yellow, peach or mint green. Tombstone, an easy day trip from Tucson, does however offer one vision of Arizona's pioneer days: clapboard and adobe buildings, and, of course, re-enacted gunfights. The 41-year-old film maker had his own confusing memories of his father's infrequent visits, mostly nocturnal, to his mother's clapboard flat in Philadelphia. James pointed to a white clapboard building around the corner. This courthouse consisted of a two-story woodframe building covered with clapboards, resting on a foundation of stone blocks. White-painted cedar clapboards cover its gabled forms, which are topped by classic standing-seam metal roofs. I step over the yard toys and around the cross-country skis to reach the front door of the clapboard house on the shore of Lake Champlain. The classical material of American building is wood and the characteristic structure is clapboard, frame surfaces of overlapping strips. Could he really have been on his way to join Nathaniel's mother in her clapboard house outside Philadelphia? The old districts with their brick sidewalks are full of lovely clapboard houses built by sea captains. 1.1informal A house with outer walls covered in clapboards. 〈非正式〉用楔形护墙板覆盖外墙的房子 Example sentencesExamples She reminded me of one of those beauties who sometimes emerge from hard country clapboards or trash-strewn double-wides. 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’.
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