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

Word History and Origins

Origin of clinker-built¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of clinker-built¹

C18 clinker a nailing together, probably from clinch

Example Sentences

Like most boats of the North and the Reaches she was clinker-built, with planks overlapped and clenched one upon the other for strength in the high seas; every part of her was sturdy and well-made.

From Literature

Just outside the National, a grey clinker-built boat has been beached: constructed from recycled scenery and riverside salvage, it's about 17 metres long and has a 10 metre-high mast.

From The Guardian

Lap′-stone, a stone which shoemakers hold in the lap to hammer leather on; Lap′-streak, a clinker-built boat—also adj.;

From Project Gutenberg

“It seemeth that the builders of the hall of this house were shipwrights, and not carpenters;” for it was clinker-built like a boat, “and seemeth as it were a galley, the keel turned upwards.”

From Project Gutenberg

Another light, clinker-built boat was launched, and reached him just right.

From Project Gutenberg