A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 358
of being prepared or finished,as a carjjenters screw clamp. CLAPBOARD. .1. A board for the out-side covering of the walls of a wooden buihling,intended to be applied horizontally, each boardoverlajiping the one below. Clapboards areusually G to 8 inches wide, about ^ of an inchthick at the lower… … CLAPEROS spfcitically to a particular Uiml ut such boardsmade iu New England. These are made inlengths of 4 feet by cuts radiating from thecentre of the log, sn that each hoard is (juarter-saweil, and hence superior to those as usuallyworked. According to this distinction, all othersuch boards…
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