garboard

/ ˈɡɑːˌbɔːd /

noun

1. nautical the bottommost plank of a vessel's hull Also calledgarboard plankgarboard strake

Word History and Origins

Origin of garboard¹

C17: from Dutch gaarboord, probably from Middle Dutch gaderen to gather + boord board

Example Sentences

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.

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Her bows were considerably damaged, while amidships a portion of her keel and both garboards had been stove in, leaving a jagged hole nearly two feet in diameter.

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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.

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The keel is 14 in. deep, the part below the rabbet of the garboard or lowest strakes of the planking, being 11 in. deep, and 4½ in. thick at the bottom.

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The ship’s in splendid condition; there’s next to nothing wrong with her but the garboard streak and the sternpost.

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