[kling-ker-bilt] 
| 1. | faced or surfaced with boards, plates, etc., each course of which overlaps the one below, lapstrake. |
| 2. | Also, clincher-built. Shipbuilding. noting a hull whose shell is formed of planking (clinker planking) or plating (clinker plating) in which each strake overlaps the next one below and is overlapped by the next one above. |
| clink·er-built (klĭng'kər-bĭlt') adj. Built with overlapping planks or boards, as a ship. [From obsolete clinker, clinch-nail, from Middle English clinken, probably variant of clenchen, to clench; see clench.] |
kərˌbɪlt