Clapboard vs. Weatherboard — What's the Difference?

A long, thin, flat piece of wood with edges horizontally overlapping in series, used to cover the outer walls of buildings

See clapboard.

A long narrow board with one edge thicker than the other, overlapped horizontally to cover the outer walls of frame structures. Also called weatherboard.

(nautical) The windward side of a vessel.

To cover with clapboards.

(nautical) A plank placed over an opening to keep out driven water.

A narrow board, usually thicker at one edge than the other, used as siding for houses and similar structures of frame construction.

Any of a series of horizontal boards used to cover the exterior of a timber-framed building; clapboard.

(uncountable) Such boards, arranged horizontally and overlapping with thick edge down, collectively, as siding.

(transitive) To cover with a weatherboard.

An oak board of a size used for barrel staves.

That side of a vessel which is toward the wind; the windward side.

(film) A clapper board; 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.

A board extending from the ridge to the eaves along the slope of the gable, and forming a close junction between the shingling of a roof and the side of the building beneath.

To cover with clapboards.

A long thin board with one edge thicker than the other; used as siding by lapping one board over the board below

A narrow board, thicker at one edge than at the other; - used for weatherboarding the outside of houses.

The side toward the wind

A stave for a cask.

To cover with clapboards; as, to clapboard the sides of a house.

A long thin board with one edge thicker than the other; used as siding by lapping one board over the board below

Cover with clapboards