It was a clinker-built rowing boat.
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Clinker-built
//ˌklɪŋkəˈbɪlt//
Synonyms for "clinker-built" (9 found)
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10 translations across 9 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- tinglat adj (having the hull constructed with overlapping hull planks or plates)
Dutch
1 entries- overnaads adj (having the hull constructed with overlapping hull planks or plates)
Finnish
1 entries- limisaumainen adj (having the hull constructed with overlapping hull planks or plates)
French
1 entries- bordé à clin adj (having the hull constructed with overlapping hull planks or plates)
Galician
1 entries- trincado adj (having the hull constructed with overlapping hull planks or plates)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- klinkbygd adj (having the hull constructed with overlapping hull planks or plates)
- klinkbygget adj (having the hull constructed with overlapping hull planks or plates)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- klinkbygd adj (having the hull constructed with overlapping hull planks or plates)
Spanish
1 entries- tingladillo adj (having the hull constructed with overlapping hull planks or plates)
Swedish
1 entries- klinkbyggd adj (having the hull constructed with overlapping hull planks or plates)
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The British portion of the expedition were ordered to leave Kingston, in Canada West, as early in the year as possible, in a beautiful clinker-built boat for Toronto.
Source: wiktionary
The herring fishery in Scotland (undoubtedly the greatest fishery of the kind) is carried on from the shore. The larger number of the boats in use for many years past are open clinker-built boats, costing, with their suite of nets, about 200l.
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Ten years ago all the bawleys were clinker-built—that is, with the streaks overlapping each other, as in boats; but the new bawleys are now all carvel-built, the planks being placed edge to edge, so as to give a smooth surface, as in yachts and large vessels.
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