carvel
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of carvel
late Middle English carvile < Dutch karveel caravel
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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 William Henry Giles Kingston
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 Sir W. H. (William Hood) Treacher
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 Neil Munro
One of them was her own, a heavy white boat, carvel built, with high freeboard.
From The Island Mystery by George A. Birmingham
This offers less resistance, and before long builders constructed so-called ‘gigs’ for racing purposes, which were carvel built.
From Boating by W. B. Woodgate
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