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strake
[ streyk ]
noun
- Nautical. a continuous course of planks or plates on a ship forming a hull shell, deck, etc.
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
- Also calledstreak 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
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Word History and Origins
Origin of strake1
C14: related to Old English streccan to stretch
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Example Sentences
"I've got one-fraction of an inch play, at any rate," said the garboard-strake, triumphantly.
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Keel outside garboard strake, inclusive of thickness of keelband, (p. 151) if any, shall not exceed in depth 1½ in.
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He passed with long strides from rock to rock, and returned dragging wildly sometimes a rider, sometimes a binding strake.
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The most forward of them he strake from his horse, and brake his thigh with the fall.
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Tobias met his father at the door, and strake of the gall on his father's eyes, saying: Be of good hope, my father.
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