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

A light narrow galley or ship's boat, clincher-built, and adapted for expedition either by rowing or sailing; the latter ticklish at times.

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 particular clincher-built craft used on the Humber.

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 bluff, clincher-built vessel, fitted with a well, to preserve the lobsters alive.

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

I made another stroke, and felt my hand pass down the side of an object that I knew at once was a clincher-built boat.

From Ned Myers or, a Life Before the Mast by Cooper, James Fenimore

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