Clapboard vs. Weatherboard

Clapboardnoun

A narrow board, usually thicker at one edge than the other, used as siding for houses and similar structures of frame construction.

Clapboardnoun

(uncountable) Such boards, arranged horizontally and overlapping with thick edge down, collectively, as siding.

Clapboardnoun

An oak board of a size used for barrel staves.

Clapboardnoun

(film) A clapper board; 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.

Clapboardverb

To cover with clapboards.

Clapboardnoun

A narrow board, thicker at one edge than at the other; - used for weatherboarding the outside of houses.

Clapboardnoun

A stave for a cask.

Clapboardverb

To cover with clapboards; as, to clapboard the sides of a house.

Clapboardnoun

a long thin board with one edge thicker than the other; used as siding by lapping one board over the board below

Clapboardverb

cover with clapboards

Clapboardnoun

a long, thin, flat piece of wood with edges horizontally overlapping in series, used to cover the outer walls of buildings

Clapboardnoun

a house with outer walls covered in clapboards.

Weatherboardnoun

(nautical) The windward side of a vessel.

Weatherboardnoun

(nautical) A plank placed over an opening to keep out driven water.

Weatherboardnoun

Any of a series of horizontal boards used to cover the exterior of a timber-framed building; clapboard.

Weatherboardverb

(transitive) To cover with a weatherboard.

Weatherboardnoun

That side of a vessel which is toward the wind; the windward side.

Weatherboardnoun

A board extending from the ridge to the eaves along the slope of the gable, and forming a close junction between the shingling of a roof and the side of the building beneath.

Weatherboardnoun

a long thin board with one edge thicker than the other; used as siding by lapping one board over the board below

Weatherboardnoun

the side toward the wind