What's a barge board?

Fremantle

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The Llangollen Canal had a bit of a failure the other day. I read somewhere (and annoyingly can't find it now) that there was a hurry to drop the barge boards into place up and down stream, to stop the canal completely emptying between locks. On one side the lock is quite close (it's somewhere around this location but the BBC doesn't like making maps). OpenStreetMappers are pondering how to map these places of stoppage, whether barrier=stoplogs is good. So, are they stop logs or barge boards or something else? (I could just look it up of course, but I thought I'd just put words out into the void of the old internet instead.)

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