lap panel fence
A common type of panel fence, especially in gardens, consisting of wooden panels six feet long erected between unmorticed posts. The panels are clad horizontally in very thin wany boards of softwood veneer, often larch (Larix spp.) hence the term ‘larch-lap’.
This definition is abridged from A – Z of tree terms: A companion to British arboriculture.
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