strake
noun
a continuous course of planks or plates on a ship forming a hull shell, deck, etc.
straked
-
a word derived from
strake.
Example Sentences
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Nay, lass, I bid you bide: I’d see you straked, before I’d let you go ...
From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Then King Mark blew and straked, and therewith his knights came to him; and then the king commanded his knights to: Take that naked man with fairness, and bring him to my castle.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Sir Thomas Malory
It was Godfrey that straked him out all alone on this table.
From Old Man Savarin and Other Stories by Edward William Thomson
They’ve never had his spirit, the young cheepers, Not one; and Jim’s the lave of the clutch; and he Will never lord it at Krindlesyke till I’m straked.
From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Godfrey all alone had straked him out on this table, with the silver-pieces on the eyes that we had feared.
From Old Man Savarin and Other Stories by Edward William Thomson
