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Lapstrake
Lapstrake meaning
A style of boatbuilding using overlapping planks. | A boat built in this style.
Example sentences (3)
It was of lapstrake construction fastened with iron nails.
Nearly all longships were clinker (also known as lapstrake) built, meaning that each hull plank overlapped the next.
The boat, nicknamed 'Rob Roy' after a famous relative of his, was built of lapstrake oak planking, decked in cedar covered with rubberized canvas with an open cockpit in the center.