Clapboard
Clapboard noun - A long thin board with one edge thicker than the other; used as siding by lapping one board over the board below.
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At the time, the only people who still lived in log cabins and drank hard cider were old coots in the backwoods (logs had mostly been replaced by clapboard and hard cider by whisky as the construction material and beverage of choice by then), and Van Buren attempted to paint Harrison as such.
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