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 hasrabbets to allow them to beoverlapped
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Examples
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Exterior materials are horizontal painted shiplap cedar and white ground face block.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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It bounced once on the weathered shiplap floor of the porch, rolled off the top step and banged on the stair below, then stopped.
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It bounced once on the weathered shiplap floor of the porch, rolled off the top step and banged on the stair below, then stopped.
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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
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The settlers use logs or shiplap and leave them in the raw.
The Intriguers Harold Bindloss 1905
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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
knitandpurl commented on the word shiplap
"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
bilby commented on the word shiplap
Plap!
August 25, 2012