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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]