lapstrake

English

Etymology

From lap +‎ strake.

Noun

lapstrake (usually uncountable, plural lapstrakes)

1. (uncountable) A style of boatbuilding using overlapping planks.
2. (countable) A boat built in this style.

Adjective

lapstrake (not comparable)

1. Descriptive of or resembling a boat, or a section of a boat, so constructed.
   • 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 188:

     The hotel nightlights shine behind the drawn venetian blinds and the slatted patterns on the curbside cars give them the look of anchored smallcraft with lapstrake hulls.

Translations

style

• Finnish: limisauma

boat

• Finnish: limisaumavene

See also

• clinker-built

Anagrams

• lapstreak