strake

[ streyk ]

noun

1. Nautical. a continuous course of planks or plates on a ship forming a hull shell, deck, etc.

strake

/ streɪk /

noun

1. 1. a curved metal plate forming part of the metal rim on a wooden wheel
   2. any metal plate let into a rubber tyre
2. Also calledstreak nautical one of a continuous range of planks or plates forming the side of a vessel
3. a profiled piece of wood carried on an arm that rotates round a fixed post: used to sweep the internal shape of a mould, as for a bell or a ship's propeller blade, in sand or loam

Other Words From

• straked adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of strake¹

1300–50; Middle English; apparently akin to stretch

Word History and Origins

Origin of strake¹

C14: related to Old English streccan to stretch

Example Sentences

"I've got one-fraction of an inch play, at any rate," said the garboard-strake, triumphantly.

From Project Gutenberg

Keel outside garboard strake, inclusive of thickness of keelband, (p. 151) if any, shall not exceed in depth 1½ in.

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He passed with long strides from rock to rock, and returned dragging wildly sometimes a rider, sometimes a binding strake.

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The most forward of them he strake from his horse, and brake his thigh with the fall.

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Tobias met his father at the door, and strake of the gall on his father's eyes, saying: Be of good hope, my father.

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Related Words

• smear