Definition of "clapboards" [clapboards]

• Plural form of clapboard. (noun)

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• "The clapboards were a foot wide, evidently fashioned with care and beaded on the edges."
• "Oldtimers in New England and New York, nothing the feather-like pattern, called the clapboards horsefeathers."
• "The terrible sickness and mortality of the whole company, afloat and ashore, had, of course, made it impossible to freight her as intended with "clapboards" [stave-stock], sassafras roots, peltry, etc."