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🚤 Smooth-sided 🛠️ Shipbuilding style ⛵ A smooth-hull boat
carvel

carvel

9.9
Made with wooden planks joined edge to edge to form a smooth hull
  • adjective
  • Specialized
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  • The shipbuilders chose a carvel design for its strength and smooth appearance.

Examples

  • A carvel hull allows the boat to move more efficiently through the water.

  • Many historic sailing vessels were constructed using the carvel method.

  • The boat was designed with a carvel hull for better speed.

  • He prefers carvel construction for its sleek appearance.

  • The shipbuilders chose a carvel design for its strength and smooth appearance.

  • A carvel hull allows the boat to move more efficiently through the water.

  • Many historic sailing vessels were constructed using the carvel method.

Synonyms

carvel-built
vscarvel
  • Specialized
9.9

A ship with a smooth hull made of planks joined edge to edge

is the same meaning but expressed as a general built construction description

Surface Forms

carvel positive

Etymology

Carvel comes from the name of the small sailing ship caravel, used by Portuguese sailors, because those ships were made with planks laid edge to edge to give a 'smooth' hull. So, carvel as an adjective describes something built in that smooth, plank-to-plank way.