clipper-built

[ klip-er-bilt ]

adjectiveNautical.
  1. (of a hull) having fast lines, with a high ratio of length to beam and a fine entrance.

Origin of clipper-built

1
First recorded in 1825–35

Words Nearby clipper-built

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How to use clipper-built in a sentence

  • The vessel in which he found himself was not by any means what we should style clipper-built—quite the reverse.

  • "Looks mighty fine in them clipper-built city clothes, Red does," he reflected.

    Red Pepper Burns | Grace S. Richmond
  • She was a clipper-built schooner, carrying fourteen guns, and a crew of one hundred and twenty men.

  • The schooner was one of the clipper-built craft, for which Baltimore ship-builders were famous the world over.

  • Would God that I were left alone to—but—nay, do not be alarmed; perhaps I am wrong; it may be a—a clipper-built trading vessel.

    The World of Ice | R.M. Ballantyne