clinker-built

2 definitions found

clinker-built - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Clinker-built \Clink"er-built\, a. (Naut.)
     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]

clinker-built - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  clinker-built
      adj 1: having overlapping hull planks [syn: clinker-built,
             clincher-built, lap-strake, lap-straked, lap-  streak
             , lap-streaked] [ant: carvel-built]