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- Clinker-built - a. - 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.
- Carvelbuilt - a. - Having the planks meet flush at the seams, instead of lapping as in a clinker-built vessel.
- Land - n. - The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; -- called also landing.
- Chase - n. - A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint, by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of clinker-built boats.