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chime n Cp OED ~ sb2 1 'projecting rim at the ends of a
cask'; EDD sb 2: chine-hoops D So.
In comb
chime-built: of a boat or vessel, built with overlapping planks; clinker-built.
P 48-60 ~ like clapboard, as life-boats are built. Q 71-6 Chime
built or clinker built refers to 'lapped plank' boat.
chime-hoop: hoop placed around the ends of a wooden barrel
or cask.
[1772] 1792 CARTWRIGHT i, 214 The cask was made of strong
oak staves, well secured by thick, broad hoops of birch; yet this creature [bear] with
one stroke of his tremendous paw, had snapped off the four chime-hoops, and broken the
staves short off. M 71-40 [In the making of a barrel] The first hoop (the runner) is
taken off, which is replaced by another hoop called a chime hoop. P 127-75 ~ The smallest
of all coopering trusses used right on both ends of the barrel.
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