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.

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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

Example Sentences

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 • Aug. 25, 2012

Walking the cobbled beach on the channel between Anacortes and Guemes Island one day, he came across an abandoned and dilapidated thirteen-foot clinker-built rowboat.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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 "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

A regulation, clinker-built, angle-iron, sunk-hinge family feud, carried on by two women!

From In the Onyx Lobby by Wells, Carolyn

Instead of the smooth exterior of the carvel-build, we have the more rugged form of clinker-built craft with great beam, and raking sterns and stems, and a wide flare forward.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various