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}]