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单词 clinker-built
例句 clinker-built
Like most boats of the North and the Reaches she was clinker-built, with planks overlapped and clenched one upon the other for strength in the high seas; every part of her was sturdy and well-made. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z
Lap′-stone, a stone which shoemakers hold in the lap to hammer leather on; Lap′-streak, a clinker-built boat—also adj.; Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z
“It seemeth that the builders of the hall of this house were shipwrights, and not carpenters;” for it was clinker-built like a boat, “and seemeth as it were a galley, the keel turned upwards.” Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z
Another light, clinker-built boat was launched, and reached him just right. The Falls of Niagara and Other Famous Cataracts 2011-03-26T02:00:15.717Z
This race is rowed in sliding-seat clinker-built boats, and the crews consist of men who have not rowed in the Trial Eights or in the first division of the Eights in the previous Summer Term. Rowing 2011-01-15T03:00:32.313Z
Parkinson was still engrossed in his book, the only change being that his back was now turned towards the high paling of clinker-built oak that separated the two gardens. Max Carrados 2010-12-24T03:00:32.117Z
Funny, fun′i, n. a light clinker-built pleasure-boat, with a pair of sculls. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z
Further, besides the primitive mode of tying the parts together, two main types of build must be noticed, in accordance with which a boat is said to be either carvel-built or 97 clinker-built. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea"
The boat was clinker-built and wholly of oak. Ancient and Modern Ships. Part 1. Wooden Sailing Ships
There is a certain amount of difference of opinion as to how long a crew should remain in their tub—that is, in their clinker-built boat—before taking to the racing-ship. Rowing 2011-01-15T03:00:32.313Z
The planking slightly overlaps, being bevelled for the purpose; that is, the hull is what we technically call clinker-built, and would probably draw about four feet of water in a sea-going trim. Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia
The clinker-built pine and fir barks of the old Northmen were no better fitted for the purpose than were the small clumsy carvels of the first English and Dutch Arctic explorers. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I
In the middle of the 19th century the long boats in use were mostly clinker-built with a keel. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea"
The boat in question is clinker-built, the planks having the same peculiarities as those of the Viking ship just described. Ancient and Modern Ships. Part 1. Wooden Sailing Ships
That in the Easter Term the first division shall row in racing ships on sliding seats, and the second division in clinker-built boats, as above, and sliding seats. Rowing 2011-01-15T03:00:32.313Z
She was clinker-built; that is, had plates slightly overlapped, like the shingles on the side of a house. The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest
Spray skatted gleefully over her bows and the wavelets made a gurgling music along the clinker-built strakes of her. A Poor Man's House
At Oxford the torpids were rowed, as now, in clinker-built craft, but the summer races were rowed in carvel-built boats, which also had a keel. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea"
A vessel or boat, the planks of which are all flush and smooth, the edges laid close to each other, and caulked to make them water-tight: in contradistinction to clinker-built, where they overlap each other. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc.
IV.—That the race shall be rowed in keeled clinker-built boats with slides of not more than 12 inches, having not less than 5 streaks in each side, exclusive of saxe-board. Rowing 2011-01-15T03:00:32.313Z
Few men could have resisted the appeal of that long slim boat with the water lapping invitingly against her clinker-built sides. A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions
There is only one objection to the clinker-built canoe that occurs to me as at all plausible. Woodcraft
Instead of the smooth exterior of the carvel-build, we have the more rugged form of clinker-built craft with great beam, and raking sterns and stems, and a wide flare forward. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea"
A light, clinker-built, very narrow pleasure-boat for sculling, i.e. rowing a pair of sculls. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc.
The second division crews of the Cambridge "May" races row with slides, but in heavy, clinker-built boats. Rowing 2011-01-15T03:00:32.313Z
A clinker-built boat is put together in the same way, but one plank laps over another; and we generally call this kind of boat a lap-streak. The Boat Club or, The Bunkers of Rippleton
And now I will give my reasons for preferring the clinker-built cedar boat, or canoe, to any other. Woodcraft
The fishing here, as in all other places along the coast, is carried on in small, clinker-built boats, sharp at both ends, and carrying two sails. Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses
It is the peculiar formation of the shore which has developed a small, clinker-built boat, and made the town famous for day fishing. The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth
Boats in general are clinker-built—that is, the planks overlap each other; but as they are difficult to repair, the other simpler method is employed. Peter the Whaler
True, this might give to the wearer a clinker-built appearance; still it would keep him nice and warm, and no doubt he had his armor on outside the rest of his things. One Third Off
One builder of cedar canoes thought he could make me the boat I wanted, inside of 20 pounds, clinker-built and at my own risk, as he hardly believed in so light a boat. Woodcraft
It is clinker-built, about 27 feet long, by 6 feet beam, with a depth of about 2 feet 6 inches; sharp at both ends and clean-sided as a mackerel. American Merchant Ships and Sailors
The narrow, clinker-built boat capsized, and in a moment the four children were struggling in the water. Marjorie's Maytime
The boat was one of the class that serves along that coast for hook-and-line as well as drift net fishing, clinker-built, about twenty-seven feet in the keel, and nine in beam. Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts
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. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 470, January 8, 1831
She was a clinker-built boat, about seventeen feet long, and her breadth of beam—that is, the distance across her from one side to the other—was great compared with her length. Frank, the Young Naturalist
The boat was clinker-built, and where the planks overlapped a slight appearance of dampness was certainly discernible. The Slave of the Lamp
But best he loved to go up the firth in the boat which Leif had made him—a finished, clinker-built little model of a war galley, christened the Joy-maker—and catch the big sea fish. The Path of the King
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