| clinker-built |
| clinker-built | (adj) having overlapping hull planks, Syn. lap-strake, lap-straked, lap-streaked, clincher-built, lap-streak, Ant. carvel-built |
| Clinker-built | a. (Naut.) Having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like clapboards on a house. See Lapstreak. [ 1913 Webster ] |