clapboard 的 2 个定义
- Chiefly Northeastern U.S. a long, thin board, thicker along one edge than the other, used in covering the outer walls of buildings, being laid horizontally, the thick edge of each board overlapping the thin edge of the board below it.
- British. a size of oak board used for making barrel staves and for wainscoting.
- of or made of clapboard: a clapboard house.
clapboard 近义词
等同于 wooden
更多clapboard例句
- Even the little yellow bus that picks them up for school, tootling past neat clapboard suburban houses as well as farmland, seems somehow dispiriting, a symbol of a home-towny way of life that means them no harm even as it hems them in.
- The taxi trundles away from the train station passing rows of gray houses with clapboard shutters into the French countryside.
- A clapboard-covered porch extended across the entire front of the house, which faced westward toward Blue.
- There he built a log cabin covered with a clapboard roof and the chimney was built on the outside of the primitive dwelling.
- Their first home in this section was a log cabin with a slab floor and a clapboard roof.
- Iron fire-shovels were a rarity among pioneers; they used, instead a broad, thin clapboard with one end narrowed to a handle.
- It was a lost fragment of clapboard about four feet long, and with no house to it.