Garboard

Word GARBOARD
Character 8
Hyphenation gar board
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Garboard"

What do we mean by garboard?

The first range or strake of planks laid next to a ship's keel. noun

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. noun

One of the planks next the keel on the outside, which form a garboard strake. noun

The first range or strake of planks laid on a ship's bottom next the keel. noun

The board on a boat which attaches to the keel running fore and aft along the bottom. noun

The first wale laid next to the keel of a wooden ship noun

The board on a boat which attaches to the keel running fore and aft along the bottom.

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The word "garboard" in example sentences

The two first strakes (garboard strakes), however, are single, 7 inches thick, and are bolted both to the keel and to the frame-timbers. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The mink would soon be joined by a 'possum; then would come a pair of muskrats; after which we'd expect to find a fox under our feet every time we stepped; a wolverine growling like fun at us when we made the least move; a squirrel climbing all over us; a heron perched on the garboard streak, whatever that might be; and mebbe a baby bear rolling on the deck. ❋ Herbert Carter (N/A)

The garboard strake is the very bottom-most plate in the bottom of ❋ Various (N/A)

"Well, that is queer!" they heard him mutter, as he thrust a finger through the hole in the garboard streak of the boat. ❋ Lawrence J. Leslie (N/A)

"I've got one-sixteenth of an inch play at any rate," said the garboard strake triumphantly; and so he had, and all the bottom of the ship felt a good deal easier for it. ❋ Various (N/A)

The keel and stem are both in one piece, as shown, and to this the garboard strake is to be fastened. ❋ Various (N/A)

Blocked up on a tidewater slipway, every detail of the vessel was visible, even to the last fathom of oakum now being hammered into her port garboard seam. ❋ Aylward Edward Dingle (N/A)

Close to her garboard strake on the starboard side he saw where ❋ Unknown (N/A)

I own this boat from garboard to main truck, bowsprit-tip to boom-end, and I don't wear any man's dog-collar. ❋ Albert Walter Tolman (N/A)

Unfortunately, however, he discovered a huge hole in her garboard, and before he could patch it an extra high tide lifted the vessel over the reef and sunk her forty fathoms deep in a place where nobody could ever get at her again. ❋ Unknown (1918)

Her garboard strake is three inches thick; her planking two and one-half inches thick; her deck - planking two inches thick and in all her planking there are no butts. ❋ Unknown (1913)

As a very learned man said on the last voyage (he is head quartermaster of the New York land garboard streak of the middle watch): "When we land a passenger on the American side there's nothing betwix him and his hotel but hell and the hackman." ❋ Unknown (1910)

His epaulets were two hairbrushes of augmented size, gold-mounted; his Plimsoll marks were outlined in bullion, and along his garboard strake ran lines of gold braid; but strangest of all to observe was the locality where he wore what appeared to be his service stripes. ❋ Unknown (1910)

The water in the main channel was so deep that it was clean up to the critter's garboard strake, and still, by the creepin ', I couldn't get him out of a walk. ❋ Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1907)

Found one sheet and a half of copper torn off her garboard streak, one off the starboard bow, and on the bows the anchor had torn the copper in some degree; from the want of copper nails could not repair those hurts until we joined the ❋ Ida Lee (1904)

Bent over and patted her garboard strake, and called upon Wooden ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

Usually a section of the keel and a portion of the garboard streaks were in sight above the sea. ❋ Holman Day (1900)

The _Moondaisy_ lies above the sea-wall, in the gutter, with her bottom-boards out and a puddle of greenish water covering her garboard strake. ❋ Stephen Sydney Reynolds (1900)

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