lap-streak

As they ran out of the harbor Frank noticed a man at work in a lap-streak sailboat.

Frank Merriwell's Cruise Burt L. Standish 1905

The boys had not returned to the yacht till they were certain the hunchback and the cock-eyed man had left the island, for the lap-streak boat was seen bound up the bay under full sail.

Frank Merriwell's Cruise Burt L. Standish 1905

As Frank had surmised, it was the lap-streak sailboat belonging to the cock-eyed man.

Frank Merriwell's Cruise Burt L. Standish 1905

"Look here, Merry," said Bruce, "isn't that the lap-streak in which we saw our friend, the cock-eyed man, as we were leaving Green's Landing?"

Frank Merriwell's Cruise Burt L. Standish 1905

There was no sound but the whisper of passing waves against our lap-streak, and the low, murmuring conversation of the men.

Drift from Two Shores Bret Harte 1869

A clinker-built boat is put together in the same way, but one plank laps over another; and we generally call this kind of boat a lap-streak.

The Boat Club or, The Bunkers of Rippleton Oliver Optic 1859

-- she could see the familiar white lap-streak as the vessel careened on the starboard tack -- it was her husband's schooner slowly creeping out of the Golden Gate!

Sally Dows Bret Harte 1869

"She's the best lap-streak boat anywhere along the Cape.

Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper James A. Cooper

"Way she sets out of water I'd call her a lap-streak dingy.

The Rise of Roscoe Paine Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

"I don't know, but I'll wager something that that is the lap-streak sailboat belonging to our friend, the cock-eyed man.

Frank Merriwell's Cruise Burt L. Standish 1905