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Garboard

Definition: Garboard

Garboard

Noun

1. The first wale laid next to the keel of a wooden ship.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "garboard" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references)

Synonyms: Garboard

Synonyms: garboard plank (n), garboard strake (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Garboard

English words defined with "garboard": Garbel, garboard plank, garboard strake. (references)

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Expressions: Garboard

Expressions using "garboard": garboard plank garboard strake Garboard streak. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Garboard

Language Translations for "garboard"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

koelrang (garboard plank, strake ( stel )), kølrang (garboard plank, garboard strake, sand strake). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

zandstrool (garboard plank, strake ( stel )), zandstrookgang (garboard plank, garboard strake, sand strake), zandstrook (garboard plank, garboard strake, sand strake). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

pohjasarja (garboard plank, garboard strake, sand strake). (various references)

   

French

  

galbord (garboard plank, garboard strake), gabord (garboard plank, garboard strake), virure de galbord (garboard plank, garboard strake), tôle de galbord (garboard plate, garboard plating). (various references)

   

German

  

Sandstrak (garboard plank, garboard strake, sand strake), Kielplanke (garboard plank, garboard strake, sand strake, strake ( stel )), Kielgang (garboard plank, garboard strake, sand strake, strake ( stel )). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πρώτη σειρά ελασμάτων μετά την τρόπιδα (garboard plank, strake ( stel )), επιστρόφιο (garboard plank, garboard strake, sand strake). (various references)

   

Italian

  

torello (bull-calf, Bullock, chine, garboard plank, garboard strake, sand strake, strake ( stel ), young bull). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arboardgay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

tábua de resbordo (garboard plank, garboard strake, sand strake). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

traca de aparadura (garboard plank, garboard strake, sand strake, strake ( stel )), plancha de aparadura (garboard plate, garboard plating), aparadura (garboard plank, strake ( stel )). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Garboard

Derivations

Words beginning with "garboard": garboards. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Garboard" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gabbard, Gairbraid, gasboard, gaybour, Girbaud, Grobart, harboard. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Garboard"

Words rhyming with "garboard" (pronounced 'Gar"board'): Aboveboard, Astarboard, Backboard, Bargeboard, Baseboard, Billboard, Blackboard, Bridgeboard, Buckboard, Cardboard, Chessboard, Dashboard, Draughtboard, Earthboard, Fireboard, Flashboard, Flushboard, footboard, Guideboard, inboard, keyboard, Knifeboard, lapboard, Leeboard, millboard, mopboard, Notchboard, Outboard, Pargeboard, Pasteboard, Pressboard, Scaleboard, Scrubboard, shipboard, Shopboard, sideboard, signboard, Slipboard, springboard, Stowboard, strawboard, Stringboard, tailboard, Treadboard, Vergeboard, Washboard, Weighboard. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Garboard

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-g-o-r-r"

-2 letters: aboard, abroad, arroba, dagoba.

-3 letters: agora, arbor, ardor, board, broad, dobra, radar.

-4 letters: agar, bard, boar, bora, brad, brag, dago, darb, dorr, drab, drag, garb, goad, grab, grad, orad, orra, raga, road, roar.

-5 letters: aba, abo, ado, aga, ago, arb, baa, bad, bag, bar, boa, bod, bog, bra, bro, brr, dab, dag, dog, dor, gab, gad, gar, goa, gob, god, gor, oar, ora, orb, rad, rag, rob, rod.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-b-d-g-o-r-r"
 

+1 letter: garboards.

 

+2 letters: bargeboard.

 

+3 letters: bargeboards.

 

+4 letters: barricadoing, starboarding.

 

+5 letters: breadboarding.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Garboard


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 61 72 62 6F 61 72 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--.    .-    .-.    -...    ---    .-    .-.    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01100001 01110010 01100010 01101111 01100001 01110010 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#97 &#114 &#98 &#111 &#97 &#114 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0061 0072 0062 006F 0061 0072 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4167846881678470

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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