garboard
/ (ˈɡɑːˌbɔːd) /
nautical the bottommost plank of a vessel's hull: Also called: garboard plank, garboard strake
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How to use garboard in a sentence
"I've got one-fraction of an inch play, at any rate," said the garboard-strake, triumphantly.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II | Rudyard KiplingKeel outside garboard strake, inclusive of thickness of keelband, (p. 151) if any, shall not exceed in depth 1½ in.
Yachting Vol. 2 | Various.I snubbed garboard, twitted Oxley and played the very dickens with the flagship's midshipmen.
The Dreadnought of the Air | Percy F. WestermanUsually a section of the keel and a portion of the garboard streaks were in sight above the sea.
Blow The Man Down | Holman DayIt knocked down trees, swept over the lake, and—caught the little canoe on the crest of a wave, right under the garboard streak.
Woodcraft and Camping | George Washington Sears (Nessmuk)
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