clipper-built
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of clipper-built
First recorded in 1825–35
Example Sentences
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From this outlook we count over two hundred steamers in sight at the same time, all side-wheelers and clipper-built, drawn hither by the exigencies of the local trade growing out of the great annual fair.
From Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands by Ballou, Maturin Murray
There was a heap of betting on that round, and, of course, with that clipper-built straight of mine, I wasn't going to let any of 'em put it on me.
From Taking Chances by Cullen, Clarence L.
She was a pretty, clipper-built, sharp-looking craft, but had made a slower run even than ourselves.
From Letters from the Cape by Duff Gordon, Lucie, Lady
While steady in movement and easily manned, she was a slow sailer; very different from the clipper-built, light-running American warships which had distressingly harassed the British during several of their more recent engagements.
From In the Van; or, The Builders by Price-Brown, John
The famous shipyards of Baltimore turned out scores of clean-cut, clipper-built schooners, with long, low hulls and raking masts, which straightway took to the ocean on privateering cruises.
From The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 by Jackson, W. C.
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