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binding strake

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noun

Shipbuilding.

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

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

From Toilers of the Sea by Hugo, Victor

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