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Garboard [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The garboard plank, in a ship, is the first plank fastened on the keel on the outside.

2. Garboard-streak, in a ship, is the first range or streak of planks laid on a ship's bottom, next the keel.

Garboard [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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