strake
Nautical. a continuous course of planks or plates on a ship forming a hull shell, deck, etc.
Origin of strake
1Other words from strake
- straked, adjective
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How to use strake in a sentence
"I've got one-fraction of an inch play, at any rate," said the garboard-strake, triumphantly.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II | Rudyard KiplingKeel outside garboard strake, inclusive of thickness of keelband, (p. 151) if any, shall not exceed in depth 1½ in.
Yachting Vol. 2 | Various.He passed with long strides from rock to rock, and returned dragging wildly sometimes a rider, sometimes a binding strake.
Toilers of the Sea | Victor HugoThe most forward of them he strake from his horse, and brake his thigh with the fall.
Tobias met his father at the door, and strake of the gall on his father's eyes, saying: Be of good hope, my father.
The Worlds Greatest Books, Volume XIII. | Various
British Dictionary definitions for strake
/ (streɪk) /
a curved metal plate forming part of the metal rim on a wooden wheel
any metal plate let into a rubber tyre
Also called: streak nautical one of a continuous range of planks or plates forming the side of a vessel
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
Origin of strake
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