Definitions
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- adjective having overlapping hull planks
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Examples
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[1] Lake Ontario was crossed from Toronto to the wharf at the mouth of the Niagara River in an ordinary double-scull, lap-strake pleasure-skiff, by the writer and another Argonaut -- Herbert
The Story of Isaac Brock Hero, Defender and Saviour of Upper Canada, 1812 Walter R. Nursey 1887
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