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Clincher-built [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

2. CLINCHER-WORK, noun In ship building, the disposition of the planks in the side of a boat or vessel, when the lower edge of every plank overlays the next below it, like slates on the roof a house.

Clincher-built [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See Clinker-built.