clipper-built

[ klip-er-bilt ]

adjective

, Nautical.

1. (of a hull) having fast lines, with a high ratio of length to beam and a fine entrance.

Word History and Origins

Origin of clipper-built¹

First recorded in 1825–35

Example Sentences

There was a heap of betting on that round, and, of course, with that clipper-built straight of mine, I wasn't going to let any of 'em put it on me.

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We are chronicling here no imaginary run of a "Flying Dutchman," but the actual performance of the A Number One, clipper-built, and copper-fastened ship, Flying Cloud—Cressy, commander!

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She seems to be clipper-built.”

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While steady in movement and easily manned, she was a slow sailer; very different from the clipper-built, light-running American warships which had distressingly harassed the British during several of their more recent engagements.

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From this outlook the author counted over two hundred steamboats in sight at the same time,—all side-wheelers and clipper-built, drawn hither by the exigencies of the local trade contingent upon the period of the great annual fair.

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