The first wale laid next to the keel of a wooden ship.
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Examples for "garboard"
Examples for "garboard"
1Usually a section of the keel and a portion of the garboard streaks were in sight above the sea.
2Poor man, it knocked him silly, and he fell over the garboard-strake and barked his shin on the cat-heads.
3I'm the garboard strake, and I'm twice as thick as most of the others, and I ought to know something.
4The keel and stem are both in one piece, as shown, and to this the garboard strake is to be fastened.
5Here spoke a sea-valve that communicated directly with the water outside and was seated not very far from the garboard strake.
1I'm the garboard strake, and I'm twice as thick as most of the others, and I ought to know something.
2The keel and stem are both in one piece, as shown, and to this the garboard strake is to be fastened.
3Here spoke a sea-valve that communicated directly with the water outside and was seated not very far from the garboard strake.
4The two first strakes ( garboard strakes), however, are single, 7 inches thick, and are bolted both to the keel and to the frame-timbers.