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The first wale laid next to the keel of a wooden ship
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garboard
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context nautical English) The board on a boat which attaches to the keel running fore and aft along the bottom.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the first wale laid next to the keel of a wooden ship [syn: garboard plank , garboard strake ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Garboard \Gar"board\, n. (Naut.) One of the planks next the keel on the outside, which form a garboard strake. Garboard strake or Garboard streak , the first range or strake of planks laid on a ship's bottom next the keel. --Totten.