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clinker-built

American  
[kling-ker-bilt] / ˈklɪŋ kərˌbɪlt /

adjective

  1. faced or surfaced with boards, plates, etc., each course of which overlaps the one below, lapstrake.

  2. Shipbuilding. Also noting a hull whose shell is formed of planking clinkerplanking or plating clinker plating in which each strake overlaps the next one below and is overlapped by the next one above.

clinker-built British  

adjective

  1. Also called: lapstrake.  (of a boat or ship) having a hull constructed with each plank overlapping that below Compare carvel-built

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Etymology

Origin of clinker-built

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

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