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Garboard   Listen
noun
Garboard  n.  (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.






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"Garboard" Quotes from Famous Books



... him silly, and he fell over the garboard-strake and barked his shin on the cat-heads. He was dizzy for a moment, then he gathered himself up and limped over and sat down by his wife and beamed his old-time admiration and affection upon her in floods, out ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... the sea, and Watts, were he capable of using his eyes, might have seen his deadly enemies, the rats, swarming in hundreds to the tiny platform that still rose above the destroying waves. Soon, even that frail ark was shattered. When keel and garboard stroke plates snapped, all that was left of the Andromeda toppled over, and the cavern she had invaded rang with a fierce note of triumph as the next wave ...
— The Stowaway Girl • Louis Tracy



Words linked to "Garboard" :   garboard plank, wale, strake, garboard strake



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