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Shiplap
Shiplap is a type of wooden board used commonly as exterior siding in the construction of residences, barns, sheds, and outbuildings.
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Clapboard (noun)
A narrow board, usually thicker at one edge than the other, used as siding for houses and similar structures of frame construction.
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Clapboard (noun)
Such boards, arranged horizontally and overlapping with thick edge down, collectively, as siding.
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Clapboard (noun)
An oak board of a size used for barrel staves.
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Clapboard (noun)
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.
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Clapboard (verb)
To cover with clapboards.
“to clapboard the sides of a house”
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Shiplap (noun)
A type of wooden board that has rabbets to allow them to be overlapped.
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Clapboard (noun)
a long, thin, flat piece of wood with edges horizontally overlapping in series, used to cover the outer walls of buildings
“neat clapboard houses”
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Clapboard (noun)
a house with outer walls covered in clapboards.
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Shiplap (verb)
fit (boards) together so that each overlaps the one below
“I shiplapped the boards and then glued and screwed them to the braces”
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Shiplap (noun)
boards which have been shiplapped, typically used for cladding
“shingles rest on roofing paper laid on shiplap”
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Shiplap (noun)
a joint between boards made by halving
“a shiplap joint”