Clinker

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Invention

Domain

Science and technology

Knowledge cost

3

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

Clinker-built, also known as lapstrake-built, is a method of boat building in which the edges of longitudinal (lengthwise-running) hull planks overlap each other.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Clinker (boat building)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: En-cas-de-soleil, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.