How To Use Carvel-built In A Sentence
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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
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It was one of the crew, peering through a poorly-tarred gap in the carvel-built hull.
Archive 2010-06-01
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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
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It was one of the crew, peering through a poorly-tarred gap in the carvel-built hull.
Archive 2010-06-01
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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
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The original engine is still in the carvel-built yacht shown: this is a Stuart Turner single-cylinder petrol engine
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This is a carvel-built boat; that is, her planking runs fore and aft,
The Boat Club or, The Bunkers of Rippleton
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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
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The cutter was clinker-built and only cutters meant for foreign service were ever carvel-built.
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They are carvel-built -- that is, the planks are placed as in a ship.
Peter the Whaler
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These are long narrow clinker or carvel-built vessels which in a heavy sea have a rather peculiar motion.
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It is not known when carvel-built ships first appeared in northern Europe.
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Replacing a strake in a lapstrake boat is a little more difficult than it is with a carvel-built boat.
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Now, the boat which I had been fortunate enough to find -- and which, by the way, seemed to be the only one that had not been carried down with the ship -- was Number 5, a craft thirty-two feet long by eight feet beam, carvel-built, double-ended, fitted with air-chambers fore and aft and along each side, with a keel six inches deep to enable her to work to windward under sail.
The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn
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They ship a great deal more water than the southern carvel-built ships, but they are stronger, in the sense that they are more elastic.
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Clencher-built vessels are much stronger, in proportion to their weight, than carvel-built ships.
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Those who had seen the Yankee's crew at work in their snaky carvel-built boat said that no one else was in it.
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