How To Use clinker-built In A Sentence
- The clinker-built construction of overlapping planks secured by clench nails conferred great strength with flexibility.
- The coble, so called because it was clinker-built in the manner of a Scotch fishing dinghy, very flat-bottomed, glided across the reef without grazing itself and stroked the mere 150 yards across the lagoon to the straight beach, where some of the surviving members of the community stood waiting: six women, one—the oldest—big with child, and five men whose ages, if their faces reflected their years, varied between shaveling young and grizzled old. Morgan’s Run
- These were clinker-built - that is, with timbers overlapping and not laid flush - with flat bottom, straight stem and stern posts, a stern rudder and a single sail.
- But not everyone who visits this exclusive little port considers it prudent to spend the equivalent of the cost of a clinker-built dinghy on a single night's accommodation.
- Perhaps the most interesting of these were the clench-nails, as these were used to fasten the overlapping long planks of a clinker-built vessel together.
- Nowadays, these wooden clinker-built dinghies are equipped with reliable outboard motors which means you no longer need forearms like Popeye to go afloat on Leven.
- The felling of strakes used in its clinker-built hull has been dated by dendrochronology to the 880s.
- He was happiest at home, with his children, and later alone on his little old clinker-built boat, the Curlew, sailing the muddy waters of the Thames estuary. In the Frame
- The clinker-built whaler lay trapped between the twin worlds of darkling sea and shadow-limned night.
- Tadeusz told her he'd bought it as a virtual wreck because he'd fallen in love with its sleek clinker-built lines. THE LAST TEMPTATION
