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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 + lap 2
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ship·lap   (shĭp'lāp')   
n.  Wooden siding rabbeted so that the edge of one board overlaps the one next to it in a flush joint.
ship'lapped' adj.
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