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Webster 1913 Edition
Garboard
Gar′board
,Noun.
(Naut.)
One of the planks next the keel on the outside, which form a garboard strake.
Garboard strake
or Garboard streak
the first range or strake of planks laid on a ship’s bottom next the keel.
Totten.
Webster 1828 Edition
Garboard
G`ARBOARD
,Noun.
Garboard-streak, in a ship, is the first range or streak of planks laid on a ship's bottom, next the keel.
Definition 2024
garboard
garboard
English
Noun
garboard (plural garboards)
- 1884, Dixon Kemp, A Manual of Yacht and Boat Sailing (Fourth Edition), page 14:
- The garboard strakes are generally of American elm, and it is best that the planking above should be of American elm or oak to within a foot or so of the load water-line, and teak above to the covering board or deck edge.
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Translations
the board on a boat which attaches to the keel running fore and aft along the bottom
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