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Definition of Clincher-built
1. Adjective. Having overlapping hull planks.
Category relationships: Ship
Antonyms: Carvel-built
Definition of Clincher-built
1. Adjective. (alternative form of clinker-built) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clincher-built
Literary usage of Clincher-built
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Retrospect of Philosophical, Mechanical, Chemical, and Agricultural Discoveries (1810)
"There is one evil which both carver and clincher built boats have in common, ...
"These boats require no larger timbers than common clincher- built boats, ..."
2. A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts by William Nicholson (1808)
"Clincher built vessels »re so superior to others in sailing, that, by an act of
parliament passed many jears ago for the prevention of smuggling! they were ..."
3. Hunt's Yachting Magazine (1853)
"The carvel built vessels have driven the others nearly out of the field, it is
quite a rare thing to see a clincher built yacht now a days. ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Frederick George Aflalo, Hedley Peek (1897)
"It is always clincher-built. (3) The Nautilus type and the developments from ...
I,ike the Heb Roy it is generally clincher-built, but the larger sailing ..."
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