Garboard was an officer who owed his position to influence rather than to merit.
Garboard as he beat a retreat, signing to a quarter-master to take the Frenchman below to the midshipmen's study.
One of the planks next the keel on the outside, which form a garboard strake.
The surface of the garboard streak, whose edge is let into the keel, is in the same manner level with the side of the keel at the extremities of the vessel.
The furrow, which is continued up stem and stern-post, into which the garboard and other streaks fay.
I'm the garboard strake, and I'm twice as thick as most of the others, and I ought to know something.
Here spoke a sea-valve that communicated directly with the water outside and was seated not very far from the garboard strake.
Inside, under the cabin floor, the timbers, deadwoods, and the garboard strakes if the yacht be coppered, should be tested in the same way.
Don't you know that the garboard streak is the last plank next the keel?
In an unguarded moment he had written that his schooner's name "was painted in showy gilt letters upon her garboard streak.
In some sea novel he remembered to have come across the expression "garboard streak," and from the context guessed it was to be applied to a detail of a vessel's construction.
Defn: 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.
Admiral Sir Peter Garboardwas not satisfied until he had heard the complete story of his young friends' adventures.
He flung it with such violence between the two garboard planks that it had taken their shape and that of the sharp riser beside which it fell, and being new, and the joint stiff, retained it.
I suppose you wouldn’t be willing to take that garboard off again, because taking the spilings of a garboard is a little different from the rest.
Let me see: Garboard has the forenoon watch to-morrow, and we shall both be off duty after general quarters.
But as soon as Mr. Garboard took the deck, Pillgrim repeated the inquiry, and the young officer was obliged to narrate an imaginary conversation.
Mr. Garboard had already gone on board the prize, hauled her off from the ship, where she was chafing her sides, and moored her a cable's length distant.
Their ends rest on the garboard streaks, and so lower the heels nearly 1 inch below the level of the floor-board on the top of the timbers.
The centre-board might come up through a slit one foot long in the garboard streak (not through the keel) into a closed mackintosh bag, so that when raised it would turn to one side, and lie flat on the bilge within.
The garboard streaks, and the next on each side are strong, while the next two on each side are light, as it is found that they are less exposed than the others, particularly in a canoe where all these lower streaks are of oak.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "garboard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
