English
garboard
Garboard comes from Dutch gaarboord.
- Dutchc. 1500–presentgaarboord
- Englishearliest quotation 1884garboard
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Dutchc. 1500–presentgaarboord
- Englishearliest quotation 1884garboard
Earliest quotation: 1884, Dixon Kemp, A Manual of Yacht and Boat Sailing (Fourth Edition): “The garboard strakes are generally of American elm, and…”
Every English word from Dutch gaarboord
Today it means
noun The board on a boat which attaches to the keel running fore and aft along the bottom.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Dutch gaarboord / garboard