clapboardingn.
U.S.
a. The putting on of clapboards.
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1637 in D. G. Hill Dedham (Mass.) Rec. (1892) III. 32 It is agreed concerning Clapboarding of houses yt it shalbe at liberty untill mid-somer day next.
b. A series of clapboards on a building.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > surfacing or cladding > [noun] > cladding with boards or panels > work consisting of
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1651 Watertown Rec. 29 About the scoolehouse... Clapbording and shingling.
1767 Boston Evening Post 15 June The lightning fell in a perpendicular direction, ripping the clap-boarding and plaistering as it fell.
1872 1st Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1871–2 309 Paper..can be advantageously used between floors and between boarding and clapboarding on the walls.
1905 H. Garland Tyranny of Dark 59 The paint was blistering and peeling from the clap-boarding on the sunny side of the main building.
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