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
In some sea novel he remembered to have come across the expression "garboard streak," and from the context guessed it was to be applied to a detail of a vessel's construction.
From Blix by Norris, Frank
Usually a section of the keel and a portion of the garboard streaks were in sight above the sea.
From Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 by Day, Holman
Don't you know that the garboard streak is the last plank next the keel?
From Blix by Norris, Frank
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