garboard
Britishnoun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of garboard
C17: from Dutch gaarboord, probably from Middle Dutch gaderen to gather + boord board
Example Sentences
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There was a jagged hole about nine inches in diameter through the garboard strake and the strake next to it on the port side about five feet from the stem.
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Her bows were considerably damaged, while amidships a portion of her keel and both garboards had been stove in, leaving a jagged hole nearly two feet in diameter.
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The whole of her framing was set up and secured, and the garboard and two adjacent streaks on each side bolted to and that was all.
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The keel is 14 in. deep, the part below the rabbet of the garboard or lowest strakes of the planking, being 11 in. deep, and 4½ in. thick at the bottom.
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The ship’s in splendid condition; there’s next to nothing wrong with her but the garboard streak and the sternpost.
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