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Word Meanings - SEA-BUILT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Built at, in, or by the sea.

Related words: (words related to SEA-BUILT)

  • BUILT
    Shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a ship. Dryden.
  • JERRY-BUILT
    Built hastily and of bad materials; as, jerry-built houses.
  • ICE-BUILT
    1. Composed of ice. 2. Loaded with ice. "Ice-built mountains." Gray.
  • OVERBUILT
    Having too many buildings; as, an overbuilt part of a town.
  • SEA-BUILT
    Built at, in, or by the sea.
  • CLINCHER-BUILT
    See CLINKER-BUILT
  • CARVELBUILT
    Having the planks meet flush at the seams, instead of lapping as in a clinker-built vessel.
  • FRIGATE-BUILT
    Built like a frigate with a raised quarter-deck and forecastle.
  • CLOUD-BUILT
    Built of, or in, the clouds; airy; unsubstantial; imaginary. Cowper. So vanished my cloud-built palace. Goldsmith.
  • HIGH-BUILT
    Of lofty structure; tall. "High-built organs." Tennyson. The high-built elephant his castle rears. Creech.
  • AIR-BUILT
    Erected in the air; having no solid foundation; chimerical; as, an air-built castle.
  • CLINKER-BUILT
    Having the side planks so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like clapboards on a house. See Lapstreak.

 

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