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clapboard

adjective as in wooden

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Example Sentences

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.

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On this page you'll find 14 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to clapboard, such as: board, frame, ligneous, log, peg, and plant.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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