carvel-built

1. 1.

   (of ships) built with flush (rather than overlapping) hull planks

   Antonymsclinker-built

   Similarflush-seamed

   ship

Questions about carvel-built

What does carvel-built mean?

carvel-built means "(of ships) built with flush (rather than overlapping) hull planks".

How many syllables are in carvel-built?

carvel-built has 4 syllables: car-vel--bu-ilt. The stress falls on "vel-".

What is the opposite of carvel-built?

The recorded antonyms are clinker-built.

Is carvel-built a common word?

carvel-built is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.