The Collaborative International Dictionary
Garboard strake
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.
WordNet
garboard strake
n. the first wale laid next to the keel of a wooden ship [syn: garboard, garboard plank]