shiplap

[ship-lap]

ship·lap

[ship-lap]
noun Carpentry.
1.
an overlapping joint, as a rabbet, between two boards joined edge to edge.
2.
boarding joined with such overlapping joints.


Origin:
1850–55; ship + lap2
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Shiplap is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
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