filler n The last strake or plank to be placed on the hull of a boat or vessel.
   T 43/8-64 You get on your garbets, the first [strake] along the keel, and the next one and the next one, and you wouldn't put on any more on top until you'd put in what was called the filler. That means the complete plank. C 66-5 The filler is the middle board between the binding strake and the clean strake. 1969 Nfld Qtly July, p. 19 ~ the last strake [or] plank, on either side of a boat, to be fastened.

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