shiplap

shiplap
/ship"lap'/, n. Carpentry.
1. an overlapping joint, as a rabbet, between two boards joined edge to edge.
2. boarding joined with such overlapping joints. See illus. under siding.
[1850-55; SHIP + LAP2]

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