What is "clapboarded"

Usage examples of "clapboarded".

It had already begun as soon as Wilbur was born,when one of the many tool sheds had been put suddenly in order, clapboarded, and fitted with a stout fresh lock.

About the period of this work's completion people noticed that the old tool-house, tightly locked and windowlessly clapboarded since Wilbur's birth, had been abandoned again.

He liked the town, the shabby red of the brick buildings, the two squat, powerful structures of gray stone, and the jerry-built stores, false-fronted and clapboarded that made up the rest of it.

The tide was high, there was a fine crowd of spectators, and the younger portion of the company followed her with subdued excitement up the narrow street of the salt-aired, whiteclapboarded little town.

The first floor was made of native stone, the second was clapboarded, the third shingled.

Then, as you came closer, you raised the whole length of the island with the coconut palms, the clapboarded houses, the white line of the beach, and the green of the South Island stretching beyond it.

The “best inn in Newton” did nothing to relieve this uneasiness: sure enough, it was a loosely clapboarded build­ing, with spare furnishings and a menu that ran to things boiled.

With Julie and Lilith crowded into the seat beside him, he drove into town and up the crowded street to the old clapboarded hotel.