boatbuilding
- noun
- /ˈboʊtˌbɪldɪŋ/
- With a rich history, the region is famous for its boatbuilding techniques passed down through generations.
- boatbuilding tradition
Examples
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The local community organizes workshops to teach beginners the art of boatbuilding using traditional methods.
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The purpose of this five-member body (again composed of nobles) was to oversee prices and guard against fraud in commerce, and it first concerned itself mainly with the manufacturing trades and boatbuilding.
Academic text (2008) -
BARKLEY Boatbuilding always seems slow at first.
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I am beginning a project with libraries to introduce Building to Teach, a program designed to improve math skills through boatbuilding.
Blog text (22) -
Getting a boatbuilding enterprise off the ground was a series of irksome details and backbreaking labor.
Fiction book (1998) -
Furthermore, around Manompana and on Sainte Marie, there is a distinctive European boatbuilding tradition of barks with clinker-built hulls and multiple masts, which may go back to the age of the pirates.
Academic text (2005) -
Many students enrolled in the course want to explore the world of boatbuilding and learn how to create their own vessels.
How Big
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Boatbuilding comes from the two simple words boat and building. A boat is a 'small ship' and building means 'making' or 'construction', so boatbuilding is the activity of making boats.