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Garboard

Noun

gar=board

WORDNET DICTIONARY

garboard(n = noun.artifact) garboard plank, garboard strake - the first wale laid next to the keel of a wooden ship; Array

is a kind of strake, wale

Garboard, n.

One of the planks next the keel on the outside, which form a garboard strake. [1913 Webster]

Garboard strake or Garboard streak, the first range or strake of planks laid on a ship's bottom next the keel. Totten.

Garboard, n. (in full garboard strake) the first range of planks or plates laid on a ship's bottom next to the keel.

Etymology

Du. gaarboord, perh. f. garen GATHER + boord BOARD

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