Definition of built

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Built (a.) Formed; shaped; constructed; made; -- often used in composition and preceded by the word denoting the form; as, frigate-built, clipper-built, etc..

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Superstructor :: Superstructive (a.) Built or erected on something else.
Batardeau :: Batardeau (n.) A wall built across the ditch of a fortification, with a sluice gate to regulate the height of water in the ditch on both sides of the wall..
Jerry-built :: "Jerry-built (a.) Built hastily and of bad materials; as, jerry-built houses..
Built :: Built (n.) Shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a ship..
Built :: Built (a.) Formed; shaped; constructed; made; -- often used in composition and preceded by the word denoting the form; as, frigate-built, clipper-built, etc..
Frigate-built :: Frigate-built (a.) Built like a frigate with a raised quarter-deck and forecastle.
Land :: Land (n.) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; -- called also landing.
Erection :: Erection (n.) The state of being erected, lifted up, built, established, or founded; exaltation of feelings or purposes..
Booth :: Booth (n.) A house or shed built of boards, boughs, or other slight materials, for temporary occupation..
Whisky :: Whisky (n.) A light carriage built for rapid motion; -- called also tim-whiskey.
Dam :: Dam (n.) A barrier to prevent the flow of a liquid; esp., a bank of earth, or wall of any kind, as of masonry or wood, built across a water course, to confine and keep back flowing water..
Wharf :: Wharf (n.) A structure or platform of timber, masonry, iron, earth, or other material, built on the shore of a harbor, river, canal, or the like, and usually extending from the shore to deep water, so that vessels may lie close alongside to receive and discharge cargo, passengers, etc.; a quay; a pier..
Frame :: Frame (n.) A term applied, especially in England, to certain machines built upon or within framework; as, a stocking frame; lace frame; spinning frame, etc..
Air-built :: Air-built (a.) Erected in the air; having no solid foundation; chimerical; as, an air-built castle..
Carvelbuilt :: Carvelbuilt (a.) Having the planks meet flush at the seams, instead of lapping as in a clinker-built vessel..
Bluff-bowed :: Bluff-bowed (a.) Built with the stem nearly straight up and down.
Clinker-built :: Clinker-built (a.) Having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like clapboards on a house. See Lapstreak.
Chalet :: Chalet (n.) A summer cottage or country house in the Swiss mountains; any country house built in the style of the Swiss cottages.
Campanile :: Campanile (n.) A bell tower, esp. one built separate from a church..
Crater :: Crater (n.) The basinlike opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a geyser, about which a cone of silica is often built up..
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