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Definition of Garboard
1. Noun. The first wale laid next to the keel of a wooden ship.
Definition of Garboard
1. n. One of the planks next the keel on the outside, which form a garboard strake.
Definition of Garboard
1. Noun. (nautical) The board on a boat which attaches to the keel running fore and aft along the bottom. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Garboard
1. a plank on a ship's bottom [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Garboard
Literary usage of Garboard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Naval Architecture: A Treatise on Laying Off and Building Wood, Iron, and by Samuel James Pope Thearle (1876)
"... plank of bottom, and garboard strakes, this list being given in the order of
the respective assemblages, beginning at the topside (see Plate LXXIV.). ..."
2. Steel Ships: Their Construction and Maintenance : a Manual for Shipbuilders by Thomas Walton (1908)
"In some cases, it is found to be necessary to fit chafing plates or shoes over
the bottom of the keel to preserve the lower edge of the garboard strake from ..."
3. Practical Shipbuilding: A Treatise on the Structural Design and Building of by A. Campbell Holms (1918)
"In some cases the garboard plates are punched and cut before flanging. ...
9, Plate 92, the former being measured on the neutral axis of the garboard plate, ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1858)
"'I know it well, garboard,' hurriedly rejoined his superior, ' and I would give
all I possess on earth for a little more sea-room; but as it is, ..."
5. A Manual of Yacht and Boat Sailing by Dixon Kemp, Brooke Heckstall-Smith (1900)
"The garboard strake will be first fitted. This will be a strake quite straight
on its ... When this plank has been fitted into the garboard and nailed at ..."
6. Steel Ships: Their Construction and Maintenance by Thomas Walton (1902)
"If the top rivets are upon the bend of the garboard strake, the work cannot be
... Before the frames are erected, and the garboard strakes are put on, ..."
7. Naval Architecture: A Treatise on Laying Off and Building Wood, Iron, and by Samuel James Pope Thearle (1876)
"... plank of bottom, and garboard strakes, this list being given in the order of
the respective assemblages, beginning at the topside (see Plate LXXIV.). ..."
8. Steel Ships: Their Construction and Maintenance : a Manual for Shipbuilders by Thomas Walton (1908)
"In some cases, it is found to be necessary to fit chafing plates or shoes over
the bottom of the keel to preserve the lower edge of the garboard strake from ..."
9. Practical Shipbuilding: A Treatise on the Structural Design and Building of by A. Campbell Holms (1918)
"In some cases the garboard plates are punched and cut before flanging. ...
9, Plate 92, the former being measured on the neutral axis of the garboard plate, ..."
10. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1858)
"'I know it well, garboard,' hurriedly rejoined his superior, ' and I would give
all I possess on earth for a little more sea-room; but as it is, ..."
11. A Manual of Yacht and Boat Sailing by Dixon Kemp, Brooke Heckstall-Smith (1900)
"The garboard strake will be first fitted. This will be a strake quite straight
on its ... When this plank has been fitted into the garboard and nailed at ..."
12. Steel Ships: Their Construction and Maintenance by Thomas Walton (1902)
"If the top rivets are upon the bend of the garboard strake, the work cannot be
... Before the frames are erected, and the garboard strakes are put on, ..."
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