Definitions for clipper-built

clipper-built clip·per-built

Spelling: [klip-er-bilt]
IPA: /ˈklɪp ərˌbɪlt/

Clipper-Built is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 538 anagrams from letters in clipper-built (-bceiillpprtu).

Definitions for clipper-built

adjective

  1. (of a hull) having fast lines, with a high ratio of length to beam and a fine entrance.

Origin of clipper-built

First recorded in 1825-35

Examples for clipper-built

Would God that I were left alone to—but—nay, do not be alarmed; perhaps I am wrong, it may be a—a clipper-built trading-vessel.

The "Bella" was a full-rigged ship of nearly 500 tons burden, clipper-built, and almost new.

She was a pretty, clipper-built, sharp-looking craft, but had made a slower run even than ourselves.

The schooner was one of the clipper-built craft, for which Baltimore ship-builders were famous the world over.

"Looks mighty fine in them clipper-built city clothes, Red does," he reflected.

Would God that I were left alone to—but—nay, do not be alarmed; perhaps I am wrong; it may be a—a clipper-built trading vessel.

She was a clipper-built schooner, carrying fourteen guns, and a crew of one hundred and twenty men.

The modern cod-smack is clipper-built, with large wells for carrying the fish alive, its cost being about £1500.

Word Value for clipper-built
Scrable

13

Words with friends

17

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