clinker-built

American  

[kling-ker-bilt] / ˈklɪŋ kərˌbɪlt /

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.

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clinker-built British  

adjective

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

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Etymology

Origin of clinker-built

1760–70; clinker (variant of clincher ) + built

Example Sentences

Just outside the National, a grey clinker-built boat has been beached: constructed from recycled scenery and riverside salvage, it's about 17 metres long and has a 10 metre-high mast.

From The Guardian • Aug. 25, 2012

Like most boats of the North and the Reaches she was clinker-built, with planks overlapped and clenched one upon the other for strength in the high seas; every part of her was sturdy and well-made.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Walking the cobbled beach on the channel between Anacortes and Guemes Island one day, he came across an abandoned and dilapidated thirteen-foot clinker-built rowboat.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

“It seemeth that the builders of the hall of this house were shipwrights, and not carpenters;” for it was clinker-built like a boat, “and seemeth as it were a galley, the keel turned upwards.”

From Chaucer and His England by Coulton, G. G.

The clinker-built pine and fir barks of the old Northmen were no better fitted for the purpose than were the small clumsy carvels of the first English and Dutch Arctic explorers.

From Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I by Nansen, Fridtjof