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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.
The garboard plank, in a ship, is the first plank fastened on the keel on the outside.
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)

  1. (nautical) The board on a boat which attaches to the keel running fore and aft along the bottom.
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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