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.
2 Poor man, it knocked him silly, and he fell over the garboard - strake and barked his shin on the cat-heads.
3 I'm the garboard strake, and I'm twice as thick as most of the others, and I ought to know something.
4 The keel and stem are both in one piece, as shown, and to this the garboard strake is to be fastened.
5 Here spoke a sea-valve that communicated directly with the water outside and was seated not very far from the garboard strake.
1 I'm the garboard strake , and I'm twice as thick as most of the others, and I ought to know something.
2 The keel and stem are both in one piece, as shown, and to this the garboard strake is to be fastened.
3 Here spoke a sea-valve that communicated directly with the water outside and was seated not very far from the garboard strake .
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.
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