strake
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strakes
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a curved metal plate forming part of the metal rim on a wooden wheel
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any metal plate let into a rubber tyre
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Also called: streak. nautical one of a continuous range of planks or plates forming the side of a vessel
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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
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Origin of strake
1300–50; Middle English; apparently akin to stretch
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But other special rights for pact members, like helping shape acquisitions or industrial strategy, would vanish, leaving the government with a strake but less clout than before.
From Reuters ● Sep. 28, 2012
But anybody who can tell a top carling from a garboard strake will want a copy of Spring Tides in his dunnage the next time he does a windward dozen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Strake width remains approximately the same, although the outer strake now runs the full length of the hull for better leverage to eliminate bow rise and add planing lift.
From Time Magazine Archive
Though the Crepuscule was armed with but sixteen guns, the noise of their detonation was great, and as we labored to stand in the darkness, cannon blasts quaked the whole ship from strake to stringer.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
As for the fairly large-sized concentrates or tin-stone which have been removed from the trough, they are washed again on the ordinary strake.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
And what about those jazzy plastic strakes framing the gloss-black crossbar?
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
But the exhibit quickly jumped to flashier models, like a 1984 Testarossa with its side strakes and horizontal design elements that make it look impossibly low and wide.
From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 2017
The 670 has a sharper entry for a smoother ride and strakes to throw the spray aside to ensure an exceptionally dry cockpit.
From Time Magazine Archive
The forward extension of these same strakes beneath a modest bow flare blew spray well away from the boat going upwind and downwind, so we enjoyed a very dry ride despite the less-than-perfect conditions.
From Time Magazine Archive
No matter where you were on the ship, you felt the power of the Olympic's twenty-nine boilers transmitted upward through the strakes of the hull.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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