A vessel or boat, the planks of which are all flush and smooth, the edges laid close to each other, and caulked to make them water-tight: in contradistinction to clinker-built, where they overlap each other.
·noun A species of jellyfish; sea blubber. II. Carvel ·noun ·same·as <<Caravel>>. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A light lateen-rigged vessel of small burden, formerly used by the Spaniards and Portuguese. Also, a...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·Impf & ·p.p. of <<Build>>. II. Built ·noun Shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a shi...
A prefix to denote the construction of a vessel, as carvel or clinker-built, bluff-built, frigate-bu...
·adj Erected in the air; having no solid foundation; chimerical; as, an air-built castle. ...
·adj ·see Clinker-built. ...
·adj Having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper e...
·adj Built of, or in, the clouds; airy; unsubstantial; imaginary. ...
·adj Built like a frigate with a raised quarter-deck and forecastle. ...
·adj Of lofty structure; tall. ...
·adj Loaded with ice. II. Ice-built ·adj Composed of ice. ...
·adj Built hastily and of bad materials; as, jerry-built houses. ...
·adj Built at, in, or by the sea. ...
Synonymous with made-block (which see). The lower masts of large ships are built or made. ...
Clinker, or overlapping edges. ...
See clincherI ...
Constructed of fir. ...
The disposition of the decks of such merchant ships as have a descent of some steps from the quarter...
Such as has been built in Great Britain or Ireland, Guernsey, Jersey, the Isle of Man, or some of th...
Recently invented guns of great strength, specially adapted to meet the requirements of rifled artil...
A phrase to express the peculiar excellence of our first-class merchantmen. ...