clapboard

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Clapboard homes line the streets, and several yards hold rusty vehicles.

From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2012

Clapboard churches, throughout the South and Southwest, became the architectural landmark of the Baptist advance for nearly a century.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some live in cabins with a huge log wall, Nary a window in it at all, Sandstone chimney and a puncheon floor, Clapboard roof and a button door .

From Time Magazine Archive

Clapboard shells, with their gables to the street, embellished with square battlements to the ridge, are emblazoned with "City Drug Store," "City Saloon," "City Hard Ware Store," &c.

From The History of Peru by Beebe, Henry S.

At the end of Clapboard Ridge, the stream makes a detour around a knoll of coarse stratified drift.

From Drainage Modifications and Glaciation in the Danbury Region Connecticut State of Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey Bulletin No. 30 by Sawyer-Harvey, Ruth