The planking slightly overlaps, being bevelled for the purpose; that is, the hull is what we technically call clinker-built, and would probably draw about four feet of water in a sea-going trim.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
One time she took a fancy for yachting, and all the danglers about her-and she always had a cordon of them-young aides-de-camp of her father the general, and idle hussars, in clanking sabertasches and most absurd mustachios-all approved of the taste, and so kept filling her mind with anecdotes of corsairs and smugglers, that at last nothing would satisfy her till I-I who always would rather have waited for low water, and waded the Liffey in all its black mud, than cross over in the ferry-boat, for fear of sickness-I was obliged to put an advertisement in the newspaper for a pleasure-boat, and, before three weeks, saw myself owner of a clinker-built schooner, of forty-eight tons, that by some mockery of fortune was called 'The Delight.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
"She's a regular clinker!
"Hilda Wade A Woman With Tenacity Of Purpose"
Grant Allen