Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Built with the hull planks lying flush or edge to edge rather than overlapping.
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- adjective nautical (of a wooden vessel) Having the
planks of thehull laidflush andcaulked to make a smooth finish.
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Examples
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It was one of the crew, peering through a poorly-tarred gap in the carvel-built hull.
Archive 2010-06-01 Megan Arkenberg 2010
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It was one of the crew, peering through a poorly-tarred gap in the carvel-built hull.
A Sorcerous Mist Megan Arkenberg 2010
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They were framed from naturally curved oak and planked with very thin oak strakes, clinker-built above the waterline and carvel-built below to reduce drag and increase speed.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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They were framed from naturally curved oak and planked with very thin oak strakes, clinker-built above the waterline and carvel-built below to reduce drag and increase speed.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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Its stout ribs, curving outwards and downwards from this magnificent balk, supported the carvel-built roof, so that the upper half of the building appeared -- and indeed was -- a large inverted hull, decorated with dormer windows, brick chimneys, and a round pigeon-house surmounted by a gilded vane.
Wandering Heath Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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Those who had seen the Yankee's crew at work in their snaky carvel-built boat said that no one else was in it.
Great Sea Stories Various 1897
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Now, the boat which I had been fortunate enough to find -- and which, by the way, seemed to be the only one that had not been carried down with the ship -- was Number 5, a craft thirty-two feet long by eight feet beam, carvel-built, double-ended, fitted with air-chambers fore and aft and along each side, with a keel six inches deep to enable her to work to windward under sail.
The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn Harry Collingwood 1886
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Ten years ago all the bawleys were clinker-built -- that is, with the streaks overlapping each other, as in boats; but the new bawleys are now all carvel-built, the planks being placed edge to edge, so as to give a smooth surface, as in yachts and large vessels.
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"This is a carvel-built boat; that is, her planking runs fore and aft,"
The Boat Club or, The Bunkers of Rippleton Oliver Optic 1859
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They are carvel-built -- that is, the planks are placed as in a ship.
Peter the Whaler William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
hernesheir commented on the word carvel-built
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April 8, 2011