shiplap

English

A shiplap house wall

Etymology

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

Verb

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

  1. To overlap boards by this means.

Anagrams

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