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shlp.

shlp. is the abbreviation of shiplap.

Meaning of shiplap

Noun

shiplap (countable and uncountable, plural shiplaps)

  1. A type of wooden board that has rabbets to allow them to be overlapped, commonly used for the exterior siding of buildings.
    • He stood on the horse and located several long pieces of one-by-eight shiplap and pulled them down.1975, Larry Woiwode, Beyond the Bedroom Wall, page 36

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Questions about shlp.

What is shlp. the abbreviation of?
Shlp. is the abbreviation of shiplap.

Words near shlp. in the dictionary

  1. shlokas
  2. Shlomo
  3. shlong
  4. shlongs
  5. shloshim
  6. shlp.
  7. shlt
  8. shltr.
  9. shltrs.
  10. shlub
  11. shlubb

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shlp. (page history and authors); shiplap (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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