clapboard vs timber

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. 

timber

noun
  • A heavy wooden beam, generally a whole log that has been squared off and used to provide heavy support for something such as a roof. 

  • The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun. 

  • Material for any structure. 

  • Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood. 

  • Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction. 

verb
  • To light or land on a tree. 

  • To surmount as a timber does. 

  • To fit with timbers. 

intj
  • Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling. 

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