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