How To Use carvel-built In A Sentence
- 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. Wandering Heath
- It was one of the crew, peering through a poorly-tarred gap in the carvel-built hull. Archive 2010-06-01
- 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. Champlain's Dream
- It was one of the crew, peering through a poorly-tarred gap in the carvel-built hull. Archive 2010-06-01
- 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. A Chapter of Adventures
- The original engine is still in the carvel-built yacht shown: this is a Stuart Turner single-cylinder petrol engine
- This is a carvel-built boat; that is, her planking runs fore and aft, The Boat Club or, The Bunkers of Rippleton
- 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. Champlain's Dream
- The cutter was clinker-built and only cutters meant for foreign service were ever carvel-built.
- They are carvel-built -- that is, the planks are placed as in a ship. Peter the Whaler
