Clinker, or overlapping edges.
·noun A <<Pun>>. II. Clinch ·vt To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly. III...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A pun or quibble. To clinch, or to clinch the nail; to confirm an improbable story by another: as, A...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
A particular method of fastening large ropes by a half hitch, with the end stopped back to its own p...
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. ...
A vessel or boat, the planks of which are all flush and smooth, the edges laid close to each other, ...
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...
To finish it; to settle it beyond further dispute, as the recruit taking the shilling. ...
The same as hard up in a clinch (which see). ♦ Jammed in a clinch like Jackson, involved in diffic...
A phrase to express the peculiar excellence of our first-class merchantmen. ...
Overtaken by misfortune, and no means of evading it. ...