What is "garboard"

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.

n. (context nautical English) The board on a boat which attaches to the keel running fore and aft along the bottom.

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