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Definition of Garboards
1. garboard [n] - See also: garboard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Garboards
Literary usage of Garboards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Historical, Topographical, and Descriptive View of the County Palatine of by Eneas Mackenzie, Marvin Ross (1834)
"S"-jSl?e hauled in endways, without destroying the garboards." Ad- ••"**- two
ii,.,st an(] block-snaker^1, ;:nd a rope-maker, and, «•*;«?• '?tv(? ..."
2. Manual of Yacht and Boat Sailing by Dixon Kemp (1884)
"When each point on the rabbet is marked, the staff may be removed and transfered,
the board selected for the garboards adjusted and tacked firmly in place ..."
3. Canoeing, Sailing and Motor Boating by Warren Hastings Miller (1919)
"But, as they must come in flush, to fit into the rabbet, so you must first cut
a bevel on the tops of garboards, beginning about 16 inches back from the ..."
4. Yacht Architecture: A Treatise on the Laws which Govern the Resistance of by Dixon Kemp (1897)
"180. of the garboards being driven out of the rabbets. ... But even with a great
rise of floor, the garboards may be crushed out of the rabbets, ..."
5. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1859)
"We fear that many missing ships have been lost through springing a leak in their
garboards, and that such leaks have been caused by iron fastening, ..."
6. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1859)
"The bolts when first driven were inch and a quarter, but had been corroded in
most places to a quarter of an inch. Thus, the keel and garboards had become ..."
7. An Historical, Topographical, and Descriptive View of the County Palatine of by Eneas Mackenzie, Marvin Ross (1834)
"S"-jSl?e hauled in endways, without destroying the garboards." Ad- ••"**- two
ii,.,st an(] block-snaker^1, ;:nd a rope-maker, and, «•*;«?• '?tv(? ..."
8. Manual of Yacht and Boat Sailing by Dixon Kemp (1884)
"When each point on the rabbet is marked, the staff may be removed and transfered,
the board selected for the garboards adjusted and tacked firmly in place ..."
9. Canoeing, Sailing and Motor Boating by Warren Hastings Miller (1919)
"But, as they must come in flush, to fit into the rabbet, so you must first cut
a bevel on the tops of garboards, beginning about 16 inches back from the ..."
10. Yacht Architecture: A Treatise on the Laws which Govern the Resistance of by Dixon Kemp (1897)
"180. of the garboards being driven out of the rabbets. ... But even with a great
rise of floor, the garboards may be crushed out of the rabbets, ..."
11. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1859)
"We fear that many missing ships have been lost through springing a leak in their
garboards, and that such leaks have been caused by iron fastening, ..."
12. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1859)
"The bolts when first driven were inch and a quarter, but had been corroded in
most places to a quarter of an inch. Thus, the keel and garboards had become ..."
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