garboard
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of garboard
C17: from Dutch gaarboord, probably from Middle Dutch gaderen to gather + boord board
Example Sentences
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But if the French and Spanish navies were rotten to their garboard strakes, Pope makes clear that the British was rotten to its keelson.
From Time Magazine Archive
But anybody who can tell a top carling from a garboard strake will want a copy of Spring Tides in his dunnage the next time he does a windward dozen.
From Time Magazine Archive
The water in the main channel was so deep that it was clean up to the critter's garboard strake, and still, by the creepin', I couldn't get him out of a walk.
From Fair Harbor by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby
The Moondaisy lies above the sea-wall, in the gutter, with her bottom-boards out and a puddle of greenish water covering her garboard strake.
From A Poor Man's House by Reynolds, Stephen Sydney
Yes," said I, "but how are we to cut the vessel out of the ice in which she is seated to above the garboard streak?
From The Frozen Pirate by Russell, W. Clark (William Clark)
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