Clapboard vs. Shiplap — What's the Difference?

A long, thin, flat piece of wood with edges horizontally overlapping in series, used to cover the outer walls of buildings

Shiplap is a type of wooden board used commonly as exterior siding in the construction of residences, barns, sheds, and outbuildings.

A long narrow board with one edge thicker than the other, overlapped horizontally to cover the outer walls of frame structures. Also called weatherboard.

Fit (boards) together so that each overlaps the one below

To cover with clapboards.

Boards which have been shiplapped, typically used for cladding

A narrow board, usually thicker at one edge than the other, used as siding for houses and similar structures of frame construction.

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

(uncountable) Such boards, arranged horizontally and overlapping with thick edge down, collectively, as siding.

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

An oak board of a size used for barrel staves.

To overlap boards by this means.

(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.

To cover with clapboards.

A narrow board, thicker at one edge than at the other; - used for weatherboarding the outside of houses.

A stave for a cask.

To cover with clapboards; as, to clapboard the sides of a house.

A long thin board with one edge thicker than the other; used as siding by lapping one board over the board below

Cover with clapboards