Definitions
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- adjective having overlapping hull planks
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Examples
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She was, as Ben had said, a lap-streaked, keel-bottomed dingy -- good enough as a yacht's tender or in deep water, but the worst boat in the world to row about
The Rise of Roscoe Paine Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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Through a row of button-woods on the northern skirt of the village is seen a square, lap-streaked building, painted a disagreeable brown, and surrounded on three sides by a platform, -- one of seven or eight similar stations strung like Indian heads on a branch thread of the Great Sagamore Railway.
The Stillwater Tragedy Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1871
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