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clinker-built

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Adjective
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clink=er-built

CIDE DICTIONARY

clinker-builta. 
     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]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

clinker-built, adj. (also clincher-built) (of a boat) having external planks overlapping downwards and secured with clinched copper nails.

Etymology
clink N.Engl. var. of CLINCH + -ER(1)

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