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What does clinker-built mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word clinker-built? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (shipbuilding) Constructed using planks or plates of the hull laid so that each plank overlaps the edge of the plank or plate below it, and in the case of plates, behind it.
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The clinker-built construction of overlapping planks secured by clench nails conferred great strength with flexibility.
The boat is thus a transitional form between the dug-out canoe and the clinker-built boat.
The clinker-built whaler lay trapped between the twin worlds of darkling sea and shadow-limned night.
Another light, clinker-built boat was launched, and reached him just right.
In the Mediaeval era, the Vikings used clinker-built ships to colonize Iceland, Greenland, Canada, and Russia.
Well preserved remains of Viking ships show they were clinker-built of overlapping planks and measured between about 17.5m and 36m in length.

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