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clinker-built

[ kling-ker-bilt ]

adjective

  1. faced or surfaced with boards, plates, etc., each course of which overlaps the one below, lapstrake.
  2. Also Shipbuilding. noting a hull whose shell is formed of planking clinkerplanking or plating clinker plating in which each strake overlaps the next one below and is overlapped by the next one above.


clinker-built

adjective

  1. (of a boat or ship) having a hull constructed with each plank overlapping that below Also calledlapstrake Compare carvel-built
“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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Word History and Origins

Origin of clinker-built1

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

And now I will give my reasons for preferring the clinker-built cedar boat, or canoe, to any other.

There is only one objection to the clinker-built canoe that occurs to me as at all plausible.

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.

She is clinker built; the planks overlying each other are fastened with iron bolts, riveted and clinched on the inside.

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