| 单词 | clinker-built |
| 释义 | > as lemmasclinker-built clinker-built adj. applied to ships and boats, the external planks of which overlap each other below, and are fastened together with clinched copper nails: now practised only with small craft. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > [adjective] > built with planks overlapping shingled1362 clincheda1547 clincher-built1769 clinker-built1769 plank-over-plank1769 clencher-built1850 clinch-built1867 lapstreaked1883 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine (1789) Clincar, a sort of flat-bottomed clinker-built pram. 1804 Hull Advertiser 21 Jan. 2/3 A boat about fourteen feet long, and six feet wide, clinker built. 1837 J. Macculloch Proofs Attrib. God III. 282 The lines on a clinker built vessel..possess a grace or beauty to which no one is insensible. 1883 St. James's Gaz. 9 Nov. These old Yorkshiremen are now nearly the only clinker-built vessels of any size left. < as lemmas |
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