clinker-built

[ kling-ker-bilt ]

adjective

1. faced or surfaced with boards, plates, etc., each course of which overlaps the one below, lapstrake.
2. Also Shipbuilding. noting a hull whose shell is formed of planking clinkerplanking or plating clinker plating in which each strake overlaps the next one below and is overlapped by the next one above.

clinker-built

adjective

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

Example Sentences

They were all clinker built of yellow pine, double fastened with copper nails, clinched over rooves.

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And now I will give my reasons for preferring the clinker-built cedar boat, or canoe, to any other.

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There is only one objection to the clinker-built canoe that occurs to me as at all plausible.

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The shell or body looked like a clinker-built boat of twenty-five or thirty tons, bottom up, and the seams of the laps newly paid.

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She is clinker built; the planks overlying each other are fastened with iron bolts, riveted and clinched on the inside.

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