It was Albert who made the boat, in 1962, from mahogany, four metres long and clinker-built. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-06-19] Reference
It is the peculiar formation of the shore which has developed a small, clinker-built boat, and made the town famous for day fishing. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth] Reference
On the other hand, among the general clutter, only a few feet off, I could see the upturned keel of an old clinker-built rowing boat. From Wordnik.com. [Longshot]
Anything used to make a noise on a corrugated iron wall or clinker-built fence by dragging it along the surface while walking past it. From Wordnik.com. [The Meaning of Liff]
Workers unearthed part of an old clinker-built vessel but were told by the foreman to cover it over again to keep construction on course. From Wordnik.com. [1000 Year Old Viking Ship Under Parking Lot | Impact Lab] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
Excavations indicate it is the hull of a 12m single-mast clinker-built boat which was carrying a cargo - possibly salted fish - in wooden barrels when it sank. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference
Jupp could give him no information beyond the fact that he must have a good sound piece of timber for the keel, and other pieces curved in a particular fashion for the strakes, and the outside planking would depend a good deal whether he wanted the boat clinker-built or smooth - sided. From Wordnik.com. [Teddy The Story of a Little Pickle] Reference
Among the bushes were concealed two clinker-built boats, remarkably well constructed for rowing, with their bottoms greased or soaped; in one of which I found a handkerchief filled with limes: I took one and brought it into the house; -- this displeased the fishermen, who afterwards told Manuel that the boats and limes belonged to some people at a small distance, who would return in a few days. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of the shipwreck of the brig Betsey, of Wiscasset, Maine, and murder of five of her crew, by pirates, on the coast of Cuba, Dec. 1824.] Reference
There is only one objection to the clinker-built canoe that occurs to me as at all plausible. From Wordnik.com. [Woodcraft] Reference
What chance had we boys in our clinker-built against the thews and sinews of trained whalemen?. From Wordnik.com. [Great Sea Stories] Reference
And now I will give my reasons for preferring the clinker-built cedar boat, or canoe, to any other. From Wordnik.com. [Woodcraft] Reference
The narrow, clinker-built boat capsized, and in a moment the four children were struggling in the water. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie's Maytime] Reference
She was clinker-built; that is, had plates slightly overlapped, like the shingles on the side of a house. From Wordnik.com. [The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest] Reference
Spray skatted gleefully over her bows and the wavelets made a gurgling music along the clinker-built strakes of her. From Wordnik.com. [A Poor Man's House] Reference
"Either side of the jetty are two stone beaches, where we have 10 old-fashioned clinker-built fishing boats," she says. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Few men could have resisted the appeal of that long slim boat with the water lapping invitingly against her clinker-built sides. From Wordnik.com. [A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Boat Club or, The Bunkers of Rippleton] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [One Third Off] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Woodcraft] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of the King] Reference
We had brought out a clinker-built boat especially to ferry ourselves over the river when it was high, and were keeping our ponies on the opposite side, where there was a good range shut in by some very broken country that we knew they would not be apt to cross. From Wordnik.com. [Sheriff's Work on a Ranch] Reference
The Betsey is clinker-built below. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland] Reference
I saw three in the weedy plot to the right of the garden-path, where once the hawthorn and lilac tree had grown from well-rollered grass, and in the little bush-wilderness to the left, which was always a wilderness, one more: and in the breakfast-room, to the right of the hall, three; and in the new wooden clinker-built attachment opening upon the breakfast-room, two, half under the billiard-table; and in her room overlooking the porch on the first floor, the long thin form of my mother on her bed, with crushed-in left temple, and at the foot of the bed, face-downward on the floor, black-haired Ada in a night-dress. From Wordnik.com. [The Purple Cloud] Reference
One time she took a fancy for yachting, and all the danglers about her -- and she always had a cordon of them -- young aides-de-camp of her father the general, and idle hussars, in clanking sabertasches and most absurd mustachios -- all approved of the taste, and so kept filling her mind with anecdotes of corsairs and smugglers, that at last nothing would satisfy her till I-- I who always would rather have waited for low water, and waded the Liffey in all its black mud, than cross over in the ferry-boat, for fear of sickness -- I was obliged to put an advertisement in the newspaper for a pleasure-boat, and, before three weeks, saw myself owner of a clinker-built schooner, of forty-eight tons, that by some mockery of fortune was called 'The Delight.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete] Reference
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