strake

American  

[streyk] / streɪk /

noun

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

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strake British  

/ streɪk /

noun

1. 1. a curved metal plate forming part of the metal rim on a wooden wheel

   2. any metal plate let into a rubber tyre

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

3. 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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Other Word Forms

• straked adjective

Etymology

Origin of strake

1300–50; Middle English; apparently akin to stretch

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

Likewise the latter is washed twice, first on a canvas strake and afterward on an ordinary strake.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius

Related Words

• smear