'Garboard strake' definitions:
Definition of 'garboard strake'
(from WordNet)
noun
The first wale laid next to the keel of a wooden ship [syn: garboard, garboard plank, garboard strake]
Definition of 'Garboard strake'
From: GCIDE
- Garboard \Gar"board\, n. (Naut.) One of the planks next the keel on the outside, which form a garboard strake. [1913 Webster]
- Garboard strake or Garboard streak, the first range or strake of planks laid on a ship's bottom next the keel. --Totten. [1913 Webster]