garboard plank

1. 1.

   the first wale laid next to the keel of a wooden ship

   Synonymsgarboardgarboard strake

   Broaderwale

Questions about garboard plank

What does garboard plank mean?

garboard plank means "the first wale laid next to the keel of a wooden ship".

What is another word for garboard plank?

Close synonyms include garboard, garboard strake. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is garboard plank a common word?

garboard plank is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.