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How to use clinker-built in a sentence

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Well preserved remains of Viking ships show they were clinker-built of overlapping planks and measured between about 17.5m and 36m in length.
The clinker-built construction of overlapping planks secured by clench nails conferred great strength with flexibility.
The clinker-built whaler lay trapped between the twin worlds of darkling sea and shadow-limned night.
The roof here is constructed almost like a clinker-built boat, again reflecting Barry's other great love, sailing.
It's a 14 ft, wooden, clinker-built boat, upside down and in need of some varnish.
The original Tyne keel was clinker-built but later types were of carvel build.
The cutter was clinker-built and only cutters meant for foreign service were ever carvel-built.
The backdrop resembles pleated fabric, or the overlapping timbers of a clinker-built ship.
He initially constructed clinker-built sailing barges, capable of carrying up to 80 tons.
In the Mediaeval era, the Vikings used clinker-built ships to colonize Iceland, Greenland, Canada, and Russia.
The rear of the clinker-built factory accomodates the fully fitted-up motorcycle repair shop, the front representing the spacious showroom.
Perhaps the most interesting of these were the clench-nails, as these were used to fasten the overlapping long planks of a clinker-built vessel together.
But not everyone who visits this exclusive little port considers it prudent to spend the equivalent of the cost of a clinker-built dinghy on a single night's accommodation.
Nowadays, these wooden clinker-built dinghies are equipped with reliable outboard motors which means you no longer need forearms like Popeye to go afloat on Leven.
Just outside the National, a grey clinker-built boat has been beached: constructed from recycled scenery and riverside salvage, it's about 17 metres long and has a 10 metre-high mast.
Lakes and islands, rushes and reeds, fowl and fish are there and wooden clinker-built boats and shiny copper spoon baits to catch the hungry pike in September.
The ship's clinker-built structure also strengthened the hypothesis that the vessel found in the Luro archipelago, in the middle of Lake Vanern, dates from the Viking era.
What is the difference between a carvel-built and a clinker-built boat?
Examples from Classical Literature
There is only one objection to the clinker-built canoe that occurs to me as at all plausible.
The lugger was found to be decked and clinker-built with a running bowsprit on which she set a jib.
The boat is thus a transitional form between the dug-out canoe and the clinker-built boat.
Another light, clinker-built boat was launched, and reached him just right.
The shell or body looked like a clinker-built boat of twenty-five or thirty tons, bottom up, and the seams of the laps newly paid.
And now I will give my reasons for preferring the clinker-built cedar boat, or canoe, to any other.
There are few crafts more capable of riding a stormy sea than is a clinker-built rowboat.
This proved to be a sixteen-foot, clinker-built skiff that had been constructed especially to carry an out-board motor.
We seem called on to envisage a ship with a clinker-built hull of overlapping planks, a single square sail, and a complex of standing and running rigging.
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