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.