Usually means: Boat construction with overlapping planks.
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  1. carvel-built: Merriam-Webster
  2. carvel-built: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. carvel-built: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. carvel-built, carvel-built: Collins English Dictionary
  5. carvel-built: Vocabulary.com
  6. carvel-built: Wiktionary
  7. carvel-built: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. carvel-built: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. carvel-built: Dictionary.com
  10. carvel-built: Rhymezone
  11. carvel-built: FreeDictionary.org
  12. carvel-built: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. carvel-built: TheFreeDictionary.com

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Canoe Terminology (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. carvel-built: Master Mariner

Definitions from Wiktionary (carvel-built)

adjective:  (nautical) Of a wooden vessel: having the planks of the hull laid flush and caulked to make a smooth finish.

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