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Garboard

Garboard Meaning & Definition
Garboard Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Garboard?

[n] the first wale laid next to the keel of a wooden ship

Synonyms | Synonyms for Garboard: garboard plank | garboard strake

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See Also | strake | wale

Garboard In Webster's Dictionary

\Gar"board\, n. (Naut.) One of the planks next the keel on the outside, which form a garboard strake. {Garboard strake} or {streak}, the first range or strake of planks laid on a ship's bottom next the keel. --Totten.

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