Clapboard Siding Small 320×228 Medium 640×456 Large 1024×729 Download Tiff Original 2400×1709 | (775.1 KB) Description Clapboard or bevel siding is the horizontal and overlapping style of laying board on the exterior of a house. "C, clapboard siding, g being rabbeted at the lower margins and g' simply overlapped." -Whitney, 1911 Keywords architecture, bevel siding, clapboard siding, exterior, housing, lap siding, overlapping, rabbeting, weather board Galleries Carpentry and Woodworking Source: William Dwight Whitney The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language (New York, NY: The Century Co., 1911)