Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Wooden siding rabbeted so that the edge of one board overlaps the one next to it in a flush joint.

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  • noun A type of wooden board that has rabbets to allow them to be overlapped

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Examples

  • Exterior materials are horizontal painted shiplap cedar and white ground face block.

    The 1290 Live/Work Residence by Sigrid Miller Pollin 2009

  • The Siegmunds get credit for replacing the original walls with shiplap boarding, an inexpensive technique for creating a smooth wall surface.

    Where Whole Foods Shops Katy McLaughlin 2009

  • These boards were erected vertically, butted side-by-side, to form the walls and then dressed out with furring strips and lath & plaster interior walls and the exterior covered with shiplap siding on the street-facing wall and tapered cypress weatherboard siding on the remaining exterior walls.

    Rebuilding New Orleans? « BuzzMachine 2005

  • These boards were erected vertically, butted side-by-side, to form the walls and then dressed out with furring strips and lath & plaster interior walls and the exterior covered with shiplap siding on the street-facing wall and tapered cypress weatherboard siding on the remaining exterior walls.

    Should New Orleans be rebuilt? « BuzzMachine 2005

  • Sophie had only recently discovered color, and the red splashes against the gray shiplap was enough to put a toothless smile on her little face.

    A Dirty Job HTML Moore, Christopher 2006

  • It bounced once on the weathered shiplap floor of the porch, rolled off the top step and banged on the stair below, then stopped.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

  • It bounced once on the weathered shiplap floor of the porch, rolled off the top step and banged on the stair below, then stopped.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

  • Through a single shiplap partition rose a rumble of masculine talk, where the logging crew loafed in their bunkhouse.

    Big Timber A Story of the Northwest Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

  • The settlers use logs or shiplap and leave them in the raw.

    The Intriguers Harold Bindloss 1905

  • A row of houses followed the crest of the ravine, some built of small logs, and some of shiplap lumber which had cracked with exposure to the sun, but all having a neglected and poverty-stricken air.

    The Intriguers Harold Bindloss 1905

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  • "By the time she returned with my breakfast — a tight-waisted glass of black tea, bread. crumbly white cheese, ship-lapped slices of tomato and cucumber, honey, and a boiled egg — and with more parsley for her husband, I was deep in the lead stories."

    Meander: East to West, Indirectly, Along a Turkish River by Jeremy Seal, p 21 of the Bloomsbury USA hardcover edition

    August 25, 2012

  • Plap!

    August 25, 2012