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lap-streak
ˈlap-streak Also lapstrake. [f. lap n.3 or v.3 + streak.] A boat in which each streak overlaps the one below; a clinker-built boat.1771 Boston Gaz. 11 Mar. (Advt.) (Th.), Whale-boats and all sorts of Lapstreak Boats. 1860 All Year Round No. 75. 587 Two boats... Long graceful lapstreaks, roomy and st...
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Brown University men's rowing
" – The Brown Paper, September 11, 1857
Described as "a cumbersome lap-streak, weighing three or four hundred pounds," the shell only competed once, in
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Charles E. Courtney
By the time he raced in Syracuse, New York on June 25, 1873, he was using a 23-feet long, 19-inch wide lap-streak boat that he bought in Geneva, New York
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lap
▪ I. lap, n.1 (læp) Forms: 1 læppa, 3–7 lappe, 6 lapp, 4– lap. [OE. lappa, læppa wk. masc. = OFris. lappa, OS. lappo (Essen gloss.), MDu. lappe (Du. lap), OHG. (with unexplained pp instead of pf) lappa fem. (MHG. lappe masc. and fem., mod.G. lappen masc.); cf. ON. lepp-r clout, rag, lock of hair. Ap...
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