Crossword-Solution: GARBOARD
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Garboard | n. | One of the planks next the keel on the outside, which form a garboard strake. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “GARBOARD”
| Clue | Answers |
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| bottommost plank of a vessel's hull | 1 answer |
| garstrake | 1 answer |
| plank | 27 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with GARBOARD (5)
Then, with a shout: "Garboard streak! garboard streak? Don't you know that the garboard streak is the last plank next the keel? You mean counter, not garboard streak.
But, by Jove, every blessed inch of the whole ship--from the screw to the bowsprit--had something to say, and the bad language used by the garboard strake when the ship rolled was something too awful! You don't happen to know what the garboard strake is, do you?" "No," I replied.
Her garboard strake is three inches thick; her planking two and one-half inches thick; her deck-planking two inches thick and in all her planking there are no butts.
Think of that!” “And every pound of it is dependent on my personal exertions.” Here spoke a sea-valve that communicated directly with the water outside, and was seated not very far from the garboard-strake.
The two first strakes (garboard strakes), however, are single, 7 inches thick, and are bolted both to the keel and to the frame-timbers.