Garboard

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The first range or strake of planks laid next to a ship's keel.
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  • n. The board on a boat which attaches to the keel running fore and aft along the bottom.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One of the planks next the keel on the outside, which form a garboard strake.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In ship-building, one of the planks or plates of the bottom next to the keel on each side; also (in the plural), the whole of the garboard-strakes on both sides, or the part of the bottom surface covered by the garboard-strakes.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the first wale laid next to the keel of a wooden ship
    • Equivalent
    garboard streak   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    strake    wale   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bocher    tongue-and-groove    sun-flooded    weather-bleached    unplaned   
     
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