carvel boat
1Carvel (boat building) — In boat building, carvel built or carvel planking is a method of constructing wooden boats and tall ships by fixing planks to a frame so that the planks butt up against each other, edge to edge, gaining support from the frame and forming a smooth …
2Carvel (disambiguation) — Carvel may refer to * Carvel, the ice cream company * Carvel (boat building) * the caravel ship type * Carvel, first track on John Frusciante s album Shadows Collide with People * the fictional home town of Andy Hardy in the classic film series… …
3Boat building — Boat building, one of the oldest branches of engineering, is concerned with constructing the hulls of boats and, for sailboats, the masts, spars and rigging.Parts* Bow the front and generally sharp end of the hull. It is designed to reduce the… …
4carvel-built — [kär′vəl bilt΄] adj. built with the planks of the hull laid edge to edge to form a smooth surface, as a boat: distinguished from CLINKER BUILT …
5Carvel (construction "à") — Construction à carvel La construction à carvel est une technique de construction navale reposant sur un assemblage des virures de bordé à franc bord sur un principe de membrures premières, sans liaison entre les virures de bordé. Le principe de… …
6carvel — Caravel Car a*vel (k[a^]r [.a]*v[e^]l), n. [F. caravelle (cf. It. caravella, Sp. carabela), fr. Sp. caraba a kind of vessel, fr. L. carabus a kind of light boat, fr. Gr. ka rabos a kind of light ship, NGr. kara bi ship, vessel.] [written also… …
7carvel — n. var. of CARAVEL. Phrases and idioms: carvel built (of a boat) made with planks flush, not overlapping (cf. CLINKER BUILT). Etymology: as CARAVEL …
8carvel-built — adjective (of a boat) having external planks which do not overlap. Compare with clinker built …
9Clinker (boat building) — A Viking longship, displaying the overlapping planks that characterize clinker construction. Clinker building is a method of constructing hulls of boats and ships by fixing wooden planks and, in the early nineteenth century, iron plates to each… …
10Construction à Carvel — La construction à carvel est une technique de construction navale reposant sur un assemblage des virures de bordé à franc bord sur un principe de membrures premières, sans liaison entre les virures de bordé. Le principe de construction à… …
