carvel
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of carvel
late Middle English carvile < Dutch karveel caravel
Example Sentences
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A prefix to denote the construction of a vessel, as carvel or clinker-built, bluff-built, frigate-built, sharp-built, &c.;
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
And cyphers nights of doomes to be, Till flaring pyres and yon red ghaut— So monstrous bright that some one prays— And Vizy's carvel starts to stir, Shape abhorrent signs on each lee.
From Betelguese A Trip Through Hell by de Esque, Jean
They poled off as best they might the huge trunks that battered at the carvel planks and pressed upon the twanging cable.
From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Munro, Neil
Carvels were strongly built craft, and we still speak of a vessel being carvel, or ship-built.
From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by Kingston, William Henry Giles
It is built up of planks fastened together by wooden pegs, carvel fashion, on a small keel, or lunas.
From British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo by Treacher, W. H. (William Hood), Sir
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