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• built

  A prefix to denote the construction of a vessel, as carvel or clinker-built, bluff-built, frigate-bu...

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• Air-built

  ·adj Erected in the air; having no solid foundation; chimerical; as, an air-built castle. ...

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• Clincher-built

  ·adj ·see Clinker-built. ...

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• Clinker-built

  ·adj Having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper e...

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• Cloud-built

  ·adj Built of, or in, the clouds; airy; unsubstantial; imaginary. ...

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• Frigate-built

  ·adj Built like a frigate with a raised quarter-deck and forecastle. ...

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• High-built

  ·adj Of lofty structure; tall. ...

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• Ice-built

  ·adj Loaded with ice. II. Ice-built ·adj Composed of ice. ...

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• Jerry-built

  ·adj Built hastily and of bad materials; as, jerry-built houses. ...

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• Sea-built

  ·adj Built at, in, or by the sea. ...

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• built-block

  Synonymous with made-block (which see). The lower masts of large ships are built or made. ...

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• carvel-built

  A vessel or boat, the planks of which are all flush and smooth, the edges laid close to each other, ...

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• clinch-built

  Clinker, or overlapping edges. ...

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• clinker built

  See clincherI ...

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• fir-built

  Constructed of fir. ...

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• frigate-built

  The disposition of the decks of such merchant ships as have a descent of some steps from the quarter...

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• british-built ship

  Such as has been built in Great Britain or Ireland, Guernsey, Jersey, the Isle of Man, or some of th...

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• built-up guns

  Recently invented guns of great strength, specially adapted to meet the requirements of rifled artil...

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• square-sterned and british built

  A phrase to express the peculiar excellence of our first-class merchantmen. ...

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