Garboard

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Garboard \Gar"board\, n. (Naut.)
     One of the planks next the keel on the outside, which form a
     garboard strake.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     {Garboard strake} or {Garboard streak}, the first range or


        strake of planks laid on a ship's bottom next the keel.
        --Totten.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  garboard
       n : the first wale laid next to the keel of a wooden ship [syn:
           {garboard plank}, {garboard strake}]