Associations to the word «Garboard»

Wiktionary

GARBOARD, noun. (nautical) The board on a boat which attaches to the keel running fore and aft along the bottom.

Dictionary definition

GARBOARD, noun. The first wale laid next to the keel of a wooden ship.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope