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
We did so, and found that the garboard streak was broken and two of her timbers, but they were easy to repair; in every other respect she was sound.
From The Privateer's-Man One hundred Years Ago by Marryat, Frederick
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.
From For Treasure Bound by Collingwood, Harry
The ship's in splendid condition; there's next to nothing wrong with her but the garboard streak and the sternpost.
From The Wrecker by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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