clinker-built

[kling-ker-bilt]

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

adjective

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