Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Clinker-built.

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  • noun uncountable A style of boatbuilding using overlapping planks.
  • noun countable A boat built in this style.

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Examples

  • The construction would be traditional clinker/lapstrake.

    [longboat] closed and set to take the north sea 2009

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  • The program also includes the construction of four boats: two historic boats, one carvel, and one lapstrake.

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  • The program also includes the construction of four boats: two historic boats, one carvel, and one lapstrake.

    You’re Certifiable Joel Naftali Lee 1999

  • Callinde rounded to weather with a shattering bang of sails, her lapstrake planking exposed broadside to the demon fleet.

    Shadowfane Wurts, Janny 1988

  • They were lapstrake craft, shorter and with less beam than his galleys, entirely decked over.

    Three Worlds to Conquer Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1964

  • They were lapstrake craft, shorter and with less beam than his galleys, entirely decked over.

    Three Worlds To Conquer Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1964

  • One summer, he enrolled in a wooden boat building school back east where he learned how to build lapstrake boats by hand.

    unknown title 2009

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  • "The whaleboats' clinker, or lapstrake, construction (with planks overlapping, resembling the clapboards of a house) made them much noisier than a smooth-bottomed boat..."

    --Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, 105

    May 1, 2008

  • Wow. Why did they use this construction for whaleboats? Does Philbrick explain?

    May 1, 2008

  • I think whaleboat has a usage note (if I recall correctly) that might answer your question. (Might not, though.)

    May 1, 2008

  • Ah. Interesting. Must do additional research. :-)

    May 1, 2008