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Meanings of garboard plank in inglês

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

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Examples for "garboard"
Examples for "garboard"
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
1
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
2
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
3
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
4
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...