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Definition of Lap-strake
1. Adjective. Having overlapping hull planks.
Category relationships: Ship
Antonyms: Carvel-built
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lap-strake
Literary usage of Lap-strake
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Small Boat Building by Harold Wallace Patterson (1916)
"Clinker or lap strake, which is principally used for small boats, ... Lap strake
also permits the use of thinner material than is possible where caulking is ..."
2. The Instructor: The Man and the Job : a Hand Book for Instructors of by Charles R. Allen (1919)
"... making might be based upon the notions of clapboards on the side of a house,
or on the idea of a lap strake boat, or on a picture of shingles on a roof. ..."
3. Description of the Largest Ship in the World, the New Clipper Great Republic by Duncan McLean (1853)
"The whole bilge is double ceiled in this style, up to a lap-strake of 6 by 15
inches, upon which the lower ends of the hanging knees rest, and the lower ..."
4. Monthly Nautical Magazine, and Quarterly Review (1855)
"The whole bilge is double ceiled in this style up to a lap strake of 6 by 15
inches, upon which the lower ends of the lower deck hanging-knees rest. ..."
5. A Naval Encyclopædia: Comprising a Dictionary of Nautical Words and Phrases (1880)
"... the sides of the boat from sheet-metal by hydraulic pressure, a corrugation
resembling the seams of a lap-strake-built boat being given for stiffness. ..."
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