Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CLINCH'ER-WORK
CLINCH'ER-BUILT, or CLINK'ER-BUILTCLINCH'ING
CLINCH'ER-WORK, n.
In ship building, the disposition of the planks in the side of a boat or vessel, when the lower edge of every plank overlays the next below it, like slates on the roof of a house. – Mar. Dict.
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