garboard
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of garboard
C17: from Dutch gaarboord, probably from Middle Dutch gaderen to gather + boord board
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Rhys: I don’t do much with Instagram but my algorithm is generally older men showing you how to kind of spile a garboard plank next to a keel, things like that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
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
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
Here spoke a sea-valve that communicated directly with the water outside and was seated not very far from the garboard strake.
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896 by Various
The hull was made pointed fore and aft, and somewhat resembles a pilot-boat, minus the keel and the sharp garboard strakes.
From Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I by Fridtjof Nansen
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