strakes
- plural of strake.
Example Sentences
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And what about those jazzy plastic strakes framing the gloss-black crossbar?
From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026
But the exhibit quickly jumped to flashier models, like a 1984 Testarossa with its side strakes and horizontal design elements that make it look impossibly low and wide.
From New York Times • Sep. 4, 2017
Though the present day Hunt firm has tweaked the original design, the V-hull still has a 21-degree deadrise, fine entry and spray-knocking lifting strakes.
From Time Magazine Archive
She has a down-angle chine ledge; multiple strakes on her bottom are designed to control spray forward and define the lifting surface aft.
From Time Magazine Archive
No matter where you were on the ship, you felt the power of the Olympic's twenty-nine boilers transmitted upward through the strakes of the hull.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
