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clinker-built

/kling-ker-bilt/US // ˈklɪŋ kərˌbɪlt //

熟料建造的,熟料制造的,熟料建造,熟料制造

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : faced or surfaced with boards, plates, etc., each course of which overlaps the one below, lapstrake.
    • : Also clincher-built. Shipbuilding. noting a hull whose shell is formed of planking or plating in which each strake overlaps the next one below and is overlapped by the next one above.

Examples

  • His life as a man is built around health insurance and tax services.

  • The Virologist By Andrew Marantz, New Yorker How a young entrepreneur built an empire by repackaging memes.

  • They carved a refuge out of the wilderness and then, in 200 years, built it into the most powerful nation on earth.

  • Marvin hops over the edge of his retaining wall, which he built.

  • Luckily, Tor was prepared for this sort of assault, and has built-in defenses to protect against it.

  • I was an Innkeeper, who loved to carouse; J was a Joiner, and built up a house.

  • The jagged top and spurs of San Jacinto Mountain shone like the turrets and posterns of a citadel built of rubies.

  • The private chapel, built out from the house on the side next Calne, had not been used for years and years.

  • He hardly recognised himself, for, the foundations being shaken, all that was built upon them trembled too.

  • Civilisation is built up of the "heresies" of men who thought freely and spoke bravely.