Usually means: Wooden siding, overlapping horizontal planks.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word clapboard:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. clapboard: Merriam-Webster
  2. clapboard: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. clapboard: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. clapboard: Collins English Dictionary
  5. clapboard: Vocabulary.com
  6. clapboard: Wordnik
  7. clapboard: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. clapboard: Wiktionary
  9. clapboard: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. clapboard: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. clapboard: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Clapboard, clapboard: Dictionary.com
  13. clapboard: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. clapboard: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Clapboard (architecture), Clapboard (film), Clapboard: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Clapboard: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. clapboard: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. clapboard: Rhymezone
  19. Clapboard: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. CLAPBOARD: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  21. clapboard: FreeDictionary.org
  22. clapboard: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. clapboard: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. clapboard: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Clapboard (film), clapboard: Encyclopedia

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See clapboarded as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A narrow board, usually thicker at one edge than the other, used as siding for houses and similar structures of frame construction.
noun:  (uncountable) Such boards, arranged horizontally and overlapping with thick edge down, collectively, as siding.
noun:  (archaic, UK) An oak board of a size used for barrel staves.
verb:  (transitive) To cover with clapboards.
noun:  (film) 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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