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probable that even in English this form of the word was reinforced from LG., as e.g.
rauchter, 1592, in Lyly's Galathea.
Clapboard (c. 1520, Mem. Ripon), originally a small size of split oak imported from
north Germany, and used by coopers for making barrel-staves, &c.; a partially
Englished form of MLG. klapholt, with board for holt. Clapholt (1477) is earlier, and
may be ad. MLG. klapholt or M.Du. clapholt, -hout.
Scabbard (1635), a thin board used in making splints, the scabbards of swords,
veneer, &c., and by printers in making register; apparently ad. MLG. schalbort, thin
board sawn off a length of timber in squaring it, from schale, shell, rind, and bort,
board.
3. 11.
Very many names were borrowed from Low Dutch for
the various commodities which were hand