garboard strake
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of garboard strake
First recorded in 1620–30
Example Sentences
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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
"I've got one-sixteenth of an inch play at any rate," said the garboard strake triumphantly; and so he had, and all the bottom of the ship felt a good deal easier for it.
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896 by Various
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.
From The Wireless Officer by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
Close to her garboard strake on the starboard side he saw where a large butt had started, owing probably to the bad loading of the ship.
From Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate" by Hains, T. Jenkins (Thornton Jenkins)
Her garboard strake is three inches thick; her planking two and one-half inches thick; her deck- planking two inches thick and in all her planking there are no butts.
From The Cruise of the Snark by London, Jack
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