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Garboard   Listen
noun
Garboard  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.





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... us starboard and d—d us larboard, Right down from rail to the streak o' the garboard. Nor less, wife, we liked him.—Tom was a man In contrast queer with Chaplain Le Fan, Who blessed us at morn, and at night yet again, D—ning us only in decorous strain; Preaching 'tween the guns—each cutlass ...
— John Marr and Other Poems • Herman Melville


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