Definitions for clinker-built

clinker-built clink·er-built

Spelling: [kling-ker-bilt]
IPA: /ˈklɪŋ kərˌbɪlt/

Clinker-Built is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 714 anagrams from letters in clinker-built (-bceiikllnrtu).

Definitions for clinker-built

adjective

  1. faced or surfaced with boards, plates, etc., each course of which overlaps the one below, lapstrake.
  2. Also, clincher-built. Shipbuilding. noting a hull whose shell is formed of planking (clinker planking) or plating (clinker plating) in which each strake overlaps the next one below and is overlapped by the next one above.

Origin of clinker-built

1760-70; clinker (variant of clincher) + built

Examples for clinker-built

This proved to be a sixteen-foot, clinker-built skiff that had been constructed especially to carry an out-board motor.

She was clinker-built; that is, had plates slightly overlapped, like the shingles on the side of a house.

The lugger was found to be decked and clinker-built with a running bowsprit on which she set a jib.

And now I will give my reasons for preferring the clinker-built cedar boat, or canoe, to any other.

The shell or body looked like a clinker-built boat of twenty-five or thirty tons, bottom up, and the seams of the laps newly paid.

In the midst of a channel was a clinker-built boat—and a man was standing in it.

There is only one objection to the clinker-built canoe that occurs to me as at all plausible.

The boat is thus a transitional form between the dug-out canoe and the clinker-built boat.

Another light, clinker-built boat was launched, and reached him just right.

There are few crafts more capable of riding a stormy sea than is a clinker-built rowboat.

Word Value for clinker-built
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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