carvel-built
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of carvel-built
First recorded in 1790–1800
Example Sentences
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When the Mary Rose was built, it was part of a new generation of modern carvel-built ships - planks laid side to side - which featured gunports with lids, allowing heavier guns to be carried.
From BBC ● May 30, 2013
She was about twenty-five feet in length, carvel-built of teak, and had a 12-horse-power paraffin engine installed under the fore-deck.
From The Wireless Officer by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
Those who had seen the Yankee's crew at work in their snaky carvel-built boat said that no one else was in it.
From Great Sea Stories by French, Joseph Lewis
In size, as a ship's boat, smaller than the barge, and, like it, carvel-built.
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
A man-of-war's boat, resembling the pinnace, but rather smaller; it is carvel-built, and generally rowed with twelve oars.
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
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