garboard : Idioms & Phrases


garboard plank

  • noun the first wale laid next to the keel of a wooden ship
    garboard plank; garboard.
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garboard strake

  • noun the first wale laid next to the keel of a wooden ship
    garboard plank; garboard.
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Garboard strakestreak

  • the first range or strake of planks laid on a ship's bottom next the keel. Totten.
Webster 1913