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clinker-built
[ kling-ker-bilt ]
adjective
- faced or surfaced with boards, plates, etc., each course of which overlaps the one below, lapstrake.
clinker-built
adjective
- (of a boat or ship) having a hull constructed with each plank overlapping that below Also calledlapstrake Compare carvel-built
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Word History and Origins
Origin of clinker-built1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of clinker-built1
C18 clinker a nailing together, probably from clinch
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Example Sentences
They were all clinker built of yellow pine, double fastened with copper nails, clinched over rooves.
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And now I will give my reasons for preferring the clinker-built cedar boat, or canoe, to any other.
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There is only one objection to the clinker-built canoe that occurs to me as at all plausible.
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The shell or body looked like a clinker-built boat of twenty-five or thirty tons, bottom up, and the seams of the laps newly paid.
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She is clinker built; the planks overlying each other are fastened with iron bolts, riveted and clinched on the inside.
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