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clinker-built

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Adjective

HYPHEN

clink=er-built

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective clinker-built has 1 sense

clinker-built(a = adj.all) clincher-built, lap-strake, lap-straked, lap-streak, lap-streaked - having overlapping hull planks; Array

Antonym: carvel-built

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CIDE DICTIONARY

clinker-built, a.

Having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like clapboards on a house. See Lapstreak. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

clinker-built, adj. (also clincher-built) (of a boat) having external planks overlapping downwards and secured with clinched copper nails.

Etymology

clink N.Engl. var. of CLINCH + -ER(1)

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