Word Meanings - CARVELBUILT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having the planks meet flush at the seams, instead of lapping as in a clinker-built vessel.

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• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• LAPPS
  A branch of the Mongolian race, now living in the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, and the adjacent parts of Russia.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• FLUSHING
  A surface formed of floating threads. (more info) 1. A heavy, coarse cloth manufactured from shoddy; -- commonly in the
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• LAPPISH
  Of or pertaining to the Lapps; Laplandish. -- n.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• FLUSHNESS
  The state of being flush; abundance.
• INSTEAD
  1. In the place or room; -- usually followed by of. Let thistles grow of wheat. Job xxxi. 40. Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab. 2 Sam. xvii.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• BUILT
  Shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a ship. Dryden.
• HAVEN
  habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
• FLUSHINGLY
  In a flushing manner.
• SEAMSTRESS
  A woman whose occupation is sewing; a needlewoman.
• HAVANA
  Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
• LAPPET
  A small decorative fold or flap, esp, of lace or muslin, in a garment or headdress. Swift. Lappet moth , one of several species of bombycid moths, which have stout, hairy caterpillars, flat beneath. Two common American species (Gastropacha
• HAVERSIAN
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
• VESSELFUL
  As much as a vessel will hold; enough to fill a vessel.
• SEAMSTER
  One who sews well, or whose occupation is to sew.
• CLINKER
  hard that it makes a sonorous sound, from clinken to clink. Cf. 1. A mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln. 2. Scoria or vitrified incombustible matter, formed in a grate or furnace where anthracite
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• JERRY-BUILT
  Built hastily and of bad materials; as, jerry-built houses.
• AIR VESSEL
  A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pump, engine, etc. For the latter, see Air chamber. The air vessels of insects are called tracheæ, of plants spiral
• ICE-BUILT
  1. Composed of ice. 2. Loaded with ice. "Ice-built mountains." Gray.
• SHELLAPPLE
  See SHELDAFLE
• DRAWSHAVE
  See KNIFE
• MISBEHAVIOR
  Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct. Addison.