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Clincher built

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Brick-built

Brick-built, means brick-built in the ordinary sense, and does not include a house built partly of brick and partly of timber, with some parts of the exterior composed of lath and plaster, and without partly walls, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 4(2), 4th Edn., Para 335, p. 299; Powel v. Double, (1832), Sugden's Venders and Purchases, 14th Edn., p. 29....


Jerry built

Built hastily and of bad materials as jerry built houses...


Built

Shape build form of structure as the built of a ship...


Cloud built

Built of or in the clouds airy unsubstantial imaginary...


Frigate built

Built like a frigate with a raised quarter deck and forecastle...


Sea built

Built at in or by the sea...


Clincher

One who or that which clinches that which holds fast...


Lapstreak

Made with boards whose edges lap one over another clinker built said of boats Contrasted with carvel built...


Schooner

Originally a small sharp built vessel with two masts and fore and aft rig Sometimes it carried square topsails on one or both masts and was called a topsail schooner About 1840 longer vessels with three masts fore and aft rigged came into use and since that time vessels with four masts and even with six masts so rigged are built Schooners with more than two masts are designated three masted schooners four masted schooners etc See Illustration in Appendix...


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