clincher-built

American  

[klin-cher-bilt] / ˈklɪn tʃərˌbɪlt /

adjective

Shipbuilding.

1. clinker-built.

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Etymology

Origin of clincher-built

First recorded in 1760–70

Example Sentences

Latterly a clincher-built boat with covered fore-sheets, and one mast with a trysail.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

A clincher-built vessel with lug-sails, similar to the drift or mackerel boats.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

There was a time, however, when the clincher-built lugger plied her trade as boldly, and almost as regularly, as the regular coaster; and that period is within the memory of those who are yet young.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 11 by Wilson, John Mackay

Such light, clincher-built, high-nosed, flat-bottomed boats are in use wherever the fur-traders are or have been.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 by Various

A smaller boat than the cutter, but likewise clincher-built.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir