strake

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

Origin of strake

1
1300–50; Middle English; apparently akin to stretch

Other words from strake

  • straked, adjective

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British Dictionary definitions for strake

strake

/ (streɪk) /


noun
    • a curved metal plate forming part of the metal rim on a wooden wheel

    • any metal plate let into a rubber tyre

  1. Also called: streak nautical one of a continuous range of planks or plates forming the side of a vessel

  1. 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

1
C14: related to Old English streccan to stretch

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