Carvel Built

Word CARVEL BUILT
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Definitions and meanings of "Carvel Built"

What do we mean by carvel built?

Built with the hull planks lying flush or edge to edge rather than overlapping. adjective

(of a wooden vessel) Having the planks of the hull laid flush and caulked to make a smooth finish. adjective

(of a wooden vessel) Having the planks of the hull laid flush and caulked to make a smooth finish.

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The word "carvel-built" in example sentences

It was one of the crew, peering through a poorly-tarred gap in the carvel-built hull. ❋ Megan Arkenberg (2010)

They were framed from naturally curved oak and planked with very thin oak strakes, clinker-built above the waterline and carvel-built below to reduce drag and increase speed. ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)

Its stout ribs, curving outwards and downwards from this magnificent balk, supported the carvel-built roof, so that the upper half of the building appeared -- and indeed was -- a large inverted hull, decorated with dormer windows, brick chimneys, and a round pigeon-house surmounted by a gilded vane. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

Those who had seen the Yankee's crew at work in their snaky carvel-built boat said that no one else was in it. ❋ Various (1897)

Now, the boat which I had been fortunate enough to find -- and which, by the way, seemed to be the only one that had not been carried down with the ship -- was Number 5, a craft thirty-two feet long by eight feet beam, carvel-built, double-ended, fitted with air-chambers fore and aft and along each side, with a keel six inches deep to enable her to work to windward under sail. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)

Ten years ago all the bawleys were clinker-built -- that is, with the streaks overlapping each other, as in boats; but the new bawleys are now all carvel-built, the planks being placed edge to edge, so as to give a smooth surface, as in yachts and large vessels. ❋ Unknown (1867)

"This is a carvel-built boat; that is, her planking runs fore and aft," ❋ Oliver Optic (1859)

They are carvel-built -- that is, the planks are placed as in a ship. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

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