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usually uncountable, plural lapstrakes
(uncountable) A style of boatbuilding using overlapping planks. examples
(countable) A boat built in this style. examples
not comparable
Descriptive of or resembling a boat, or a section of a boat, so constructed. quotations examples
The hotel nightlights shine behind the drawn venetian blinds and the slatted patterns on the curbside cars give them the look of anchored smallcraft with lapstrake hulls.
1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 188