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Definition of Lap-streaked
1. Adjective. Having overlapping hull planks.
Category relationships: Ship
Antonyms: Carvel-built
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lap-streaked
Literary usage of Lap-streaked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Tribune Book of Open-air Sports by Ottmar Mergenthaler, Henry Hall (1887)
"... made secure and water-tight in a variety of methods. These are called smooth
skin canoes. Tho Rob Roy canoe is usually built of lap streaked white cedar ..."
2. Sweden and the Swedes by William Widgery Thomas (1891)
"Piles of cheap furniture awaited customers; while all along the granite curbing
of the moat were moored rude, broad, lap-streaked sloops, their decks piled ..."
3. The Young Folks' Cyclopædia of Common Things by John Denison Champlin (1884)
"... of one plank resting on the edge of the next one ; and clincher built, or
lap-streaked, when the planks overlap each other like clapboards on a house. ..."
4. An Oriental Land of the Free: Or, Life and Mission Work Among the Laos of by John Haskell Freeman (1910)
"... .bove this the sides are formed of planks, lap- streaked on. The deck, the
walls and roof of the cabin, the high prow, the enormous steering oar, ..."
5. Reports of Criminal Cases, Tried in the Municipal Court of the City of by Peter Oxenbridge Thacher, Massachusetts Municipal Court (Boston), Horatio Woodman (1845)
"Francis. vessel, called a lap-streaked boat, lying within the body of this county;
and in the third count, the boat is described as an unfinished vessel. ..."
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