† clapholt Obs.
Also 5 clappolte, -alde, 9 -holde, 7 -hoult.
[a. LG. klappholt (Bremen Wbuch.), in Du. klaphout (in Kilian), Da. klapholt (16th c. in Molbech), Ger. klappholz, whence Sw. klappholts: explained in Grimm as ‘smaller pieces of split oak as used by coopers for cask staves, in contrast to the larger pipenstäbe, LG. pipenstäve, Du. pijpstave, Da. pibestaver, Sw. pipstafvar, Eng. pipestaves’. Kilian explains ‘tabulæ querneæ minores’, Plantijn ‘bois a tonneliers pour faire les douues’. Of Low German origin, f. stem of klappen to clap (in some one of its various senses) + holt wood.]
= clapboard n. 2.
| 1477 Paston Lett. 807 III. 211 There is a grete chyppe go to wrekke..and there came up..gret plente of bowe stauys and waynescotte and clappalde grete plente. 1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. (1841) 201 For the beryng of vij. c. clappolte xxd. 1614 Eng. Way to Wealth in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) III. 237 Ships..returning with hemp..clap-holt, etc. 1660 Act Tonnage & Pound. 12 Chas. II, Claphoult or Clapboard. 1721 C. King Brit. Merch. I. 302 Clapholt, 10½ hundred; Deals, 900 hundred. |