Shiplap vs Clapboard - What's the difference?
shiplap | clapboard |
A narrow board, usually thicker at one edge than the other, used as siding for houses and similar structures of frame construction.
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=September 28, author=Wendy Moonan, title=, work=New York Times
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(uncountable) Such boards, arranged horizontally and overlapping with thick edge down, collectively, as siding.
(archaic, UK) An oak board of a size used for barrel staves.
(film) A clapper board; a device used in film production, having hinged boards that are brought together with a clap, used to synchronize picture and sound at the start of each take of a motion picture or other video production.
As nouns the difference between shiplap and clapboard
is that shiplap is a type of wooden board that has rabbets to allow them to be overlapped while clapboard is a narrow board, usually thicker at one edge than the other, used as siding for houses and similar structures of frame construction.As a verb clapboard is
to cover with clapboards.shiplap
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clapboard
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