Gar·board n. Naut. One of the planks next the keel on the outside, which form a garboard strake.
Garboard strake or Garboard streak, the first range or strake of planks laid on a ship's bottom next the keel.
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garboard strake
n : the first wale laid next to the keel of a wooden ship [syn:
garboard, garboard plank]