clapboard vs lath

clapboard

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

  • 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. 

  • Such boards, arranged horizontally and overlapping with thick edge down, collectively, as siding. 

verb
  • To cover with clapboards. 

lath

noun
  • A thin, narrow strip, fastened to the rafters, studs, or floor beams of a building, for the purpose of supporting a covering of tiles, plastering, etc. 

  • Microscopic, needle-like crystals, usually of plagioclase feldspar, in a glassy groundmass 

verb
  • to cover or line with laths 

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