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Definition of Clapboards
1. clapboard [v] - See also: clapboard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clapboards
Literary usage of Clapboards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts by Massachusetts County Court (Essex County), George Francis Dow (1921)
"For taking away a parcel of cedar clapboards. Verdict for plaintiff.* land of
his own lying at the head of Salem men's land, so called, but he would not ..."
2. Building Construction and Superintendence by Frank Eugene Kidder (1915)
"clapboards are made of white pine, although more clapboards are now made of
spruce, and even hemlock clapboards are sometimes seen. 190. SIDING. ..."
3. Note-book Kept by Thomas Lechford, Esq., Lawyer, in Boston, Massachusetts by Thomas Lechford, James Hammond Trumbull (1885)
"... the said merchant hath laden the said ship wth clapboards to the number of
8000 & 500 or thereabouts to be dd at [6/ani-] for wch ..."
4. The New England Gazetteer: Containing Descriptions of the States, Counties by John Hayward (1857)
"... hair prepared, value, $28000 ; value of vinegar, $15000 ; boards and clapboards
planed, value, $200000 ; saddles, harnesses, trunks, cordage, &c. ..."
5. Estimating the Cost of Buildings: A Systematic Treatise on Factors of Costs by Arthur Waldo Joslin (1913)
"clapboards In this market clapboards are sold by the 1000 pieces, 4 ft. long.
Thus, if they are laid 4 in. to the weather, one clapboard will cover 1^ sq. ..."
6. Records Relating to the Early History of Boston by Boston (Mass.). Registry Dept (1884)
"... the house below & to make three rows of benches for the boyes on each Side
the room, to finde all Timber, boards, clapboards, Shingles, nayles, hinges. ..."
7. The Charter and Ordinances of the City of Portland: Together with Acts of by Portland (Me.)., John T. Fagan, Maine (1902)
"Every town, at its annual meeting, shall elect one or more surveyors of boards,
plank, timber and joist; one or more surveyors of shingles, clapboards, ..."
8. Archaeologia Americana: Transactions and Collections of the American by American Antiquarian Society, Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) (1885)
"... owners of the said ship of the other ptc Wheras the said merchant hath laden
the said ship wth clapboards to the number of 8000 & 500 or thereabouts to ..."
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