clinker-built

[ kling-ker-bilt ]

/ ˈklɪŋ kərˌbɪlt /

adjective

faced or surfaced with boards, plates, etc., each course of which overlaps the one below, lapstrake.

Also clincher-built. Shipbuilding. noting a hull whose shell is formed of planking (clinker planking ) or plating (clinker plating ) in which each strake overlaps the next one below and is overlapped by the next one above.

Compare carvel-built.

Origin of clinker-built

1760–70; clinker (variant of clincher) + built

Words nearby clinker-built

clinician, clinicopathologic, clinid, clink, clinker, clinker-built, clinkety-clank, clinkstone, clino-, clinocephaly, clinodactyly

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Example sentences from the Web for clinker-built

In the midst of a channel was a clinker-built boat—and a man was standing in it.
The Firebug|Roy J. Snell
There is only one objection to the clinker-built canoe that occurs to me as at all plausible.
Woodcraft and Camping|George Washington Sears (Nessmuk)
The boat in question is clinker-built, the planks having the same peculiarities as those of the Viking ship just described.
Ancient and Modern Ships.|George C. V. Holmes
The boat is thus a transitional form between the dug-out canoe and the clinker-built boat.
In Northern Mists (Volume 2 of 2)|Fridtjof Nansen

The lugger was found to be decked and clinker-built with a running bowsprit on which she set a jib.
King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855|E. Keble Chatterton

British Dictionary definitions for clinker-built

clinker-built

clincher-built

adjective

(of a boat or ship) having a hull constructed with each plank overlapping that belowAlso called: lapstrake Compare carvel-built

Word Origin for clinker-built

C18 clinker a nailing together, probably from clinch

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单词	clinker-built
释义	clinker-built [ kling-ker-bilt ] / ˈklɪŋ kərˌbɪlt / adjective faced or surfaced with boards, plates, etc., each course of which overlaps the one below, lapstrake. Also clincher-built. Shipbuilding. noting a hull whose shell is formed of planking (clinker planking ) or plating (clinker plating ) in which each strake overlaps the next one below and is overlapped by the next one above. Compare carvel-built. Origin of clinker-built 1760–70; clinker (variant of clincher) + built Words nearby clinker-built clinician, clinicopathologic, clinid, clink, clinker, clinker-built, clinkety-clank, clinkstone, clino-, clinocephaly, clinodactyly Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for clinker-built In the midst of a channel was a clinker-built boat—and a man was standing in it. The Firebug\|Roy J. Snell There is only one objection to the clinker-built canoe that occurs to me as at all plausible. Woodcraft and Camping\|George Washington Sears (Nessmuk) The boat in question is clinker-built, the planks having the same peculiarities as those of the Viking ship just described. Ancient and Modern Ships.\|George C. V. Holmes The boat is thus a transitional form between the dug-out canoe and the clinker-built boat. In Northern Mists (Volume 2 of 2)\|Fridtjof Nansen The lugger was found to be decked and clinker-built with a running bowsprit on which she set a jib. King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855\|E. Keble Chatterton British Dictionary definitions for clinker-built clinker-built clincher-built adjective (of a boat or ship) having a hull constructed with each plank overlapping that belowAlso called: lapstrake Compare carvel-built Word Origin for clinker-built C18 clinker a nailing together, probably from clinch Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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