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Definition of "garboard" [gar•board]

  • The first range or strake of planks laid next to a ship's keel. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "garboard" in a sentence
  • "The two first strakes (garboard strakes), however, are single, 7 inches thick, and are bolted both to the keel and to the frame-timbers."
  • ""Well, that is queer!" they heard him mutter, as he thrust a finger through the hole in the garboard streak of the boat."
  • "Close to her garboard strake on the starboard side he saw where"
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