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Lapstrake

Made with boards whose edges lap one over another; clinker-built; -- said of boats.

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Arris noun · 78% connection

The sharp edge or salient angle formed by two surfaces meeting each other, whether plane or curved; -- applied particularly to the edg…

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Astel noun · 78% connection

An arch, or ceiling, of boards, placed over the men's heads in a mine.

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Balker noun · 78% connection

A person who stands on a rock or eminence to espy the shoals of herring, etc., and to give notice to the men in boats which way they p…

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Boarding noun · 78% connection

The act of covering with boards; also, boards, collectively; or a covering made of boards.

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Boat noun · 78% connection

Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat,…

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Boatable adjective · 78% connection

Navigable for boats, or small river craft.

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Boathouse noun · 78% connection

A house for sheltering boats.

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Boating noun · 78% connection

The act or practice of rowing or sailing, esp. as an amusement; carriage in boats.

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Boatswain noun · 78% connection

An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the cr…

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Booth noun · 78% connection

A house or shed built of boards, boughs, or other slight materials, for temporary occupation.

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Broach noun · 78% connection

A tool of steel, generally tapering, and of a polygonal form, with from four to eight cutting edges, for smoothing or enlarging holes…

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Built adjective · 78% connection

Formed; shaped; constructed; made; -- often used in composition and preceded by the word denoting the form; as, frigate-built, clipper…

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Burr noun · 78% connection

A clinker; a partially vitrified brick.

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Carry noun · 78% connection

A tract of land, over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a carrying place; a portage.

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Carvelbuilt adjective · 78% connection

Having the planks meet flush at the seams, instead of lapping as in a clinker-built vessel.

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Catamaran noun · 78% connection

Any vessel with twin hulls, whether propelled by sails or by steam; esp., one of a class of double-hulled pleasure boats remarkable fo…

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Chase noun · 78% connection

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 cli…

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Clincher-built adjective · 78% connection

See Clinker-built.

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