Note 396 — PART II. DR. COVEL’S DIARY. (continued 4)
Reading edition
Clenched = clinched, or clincher-built, lap-jointed work—a mode of building in which the lower edge of each plank overlaps the next one below it.
Reading edition
Clenched = clinched, or clincher-built, lap-jointed work—a mode of building in which the lower edge of each plank overlaps the next one below it.