shiplap

English

A shiplap house wall

Etymology

From ship +‎ lap.

Noun

shiplap (countable and uncountable, plural shiplaps)

1. A type of wooden board that has rabbets to allow them to be overlapped, commonly used for the exterior siding of buildings.

Translations

type of wooden board

• Finnish: puoliponttilauta

Verb

shiplap (third-person singular simple present shiplaps, present participle shiplapping, simple past and past participle shiplapped)

1. (transitive) To overlap boards by this means.

Anagrams

• Lappish, applish, palship, slippah