·adj Built hastily and of bad materials; as, jerry-built houses.
·add. ·adj Flimsy; jerry-built. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·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...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·add. ·noun A professional builder who erects cheap dwellings of poor materials and unsubstantial an...
A henpecked husband: from a celebrated character in one of Mr. Foote's plays, representing a man gov...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
·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 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, ...
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...
·add. ·- A hot sweetened drink of rum and water spiced with cinnamon, cloves, ·etc., and beaten up w...
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. ...