Meaning Of The Word Clinker-built

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clinker-built in American English
built with the planks of the hull overlapping, as a boat
adjective: faced or surfaced with boards, plates, etc., each course of which overlaps the one below, lapstrake

clinker-built in British English
adjective: (of a boat or ship) having a hull constructed with each plank overlapping that below

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