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Meanings of garboard in anglès

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

Usage of garboard in anglès
1
Usually a section of the keel and a portion of the garboard streaks were in sight above the sea.
Blow The Man Down: A Romance Of The Coast
2
Poor man, it knocked him silly, and he fell over the garboard-strake and barked his shin on the cat-heads.
The $30,000 Bequest, and Other Stories
3
I'm the garboard strake, and I'm twice as thick as most of the others, and I ought to know something.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896
4
The keel and stem are both in one piece, as shown, and to this the garboard strake is to be fastened.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884
5
Here spoke a sea-valve that communicated directly with the water outside and was seated not very far from the garboard strake.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896
6
It knocked down trees, swept over the lake and caught the little canoe on the crest of a wave, right under the garboard streak.
Woodcraft
7
The two first strakes (garboard strakes), however, are single, 7 inches thick, and are bolted both to the keel and to the frame-timbers.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition...
8
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)
The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
9
"Yes," said I, "but how are we to cut the vessel out of the ice in which she is seated to above the garboard streak?
The Frozen Pirate
Frequent collocations
Garboard through the time