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