binding strake

American  

noun

Shipbuilding.

1. a very strong, heavy strake of planking, especially one next to a sheer strake.

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Example Sentences

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

From Project Gutenberg

Suddenly the end of a binding strake, detached from the dislocated frame, was swept away over the second barrier and across the transversal rock, falling in the defile, where the water seized and carried it into the sinuosities of the pass.

From Project Gutenberg