Definition of "clipper-built" []

• Nautical, built after the type of a clipper.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Sept. 22nd., upon coming on deck at seven bells in the morning we found the other watch aloft throwing water upon the sails, and looking astern we saw a small, clipper-built brig with a black hull heading directly after us."
• "I warn you that when they put beautiful clipper-built girls on the stage in this new fashion, with only just barely clothes enough on to be tantalizing, it is a shrewd invention of the devil."
• "They got to the docks in time, and got on board that fast-sailing, clipper-built, never-beaten, always-healthy ship, the"