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Strake
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Strake has 1 sense
- strake(n = noun.artifact) wale - thick plank forming a ridge along the side of a wooden ship; Array has particulars: garboard, garboard plank, garboard strake, gun rest, gunnel, gunwale
is a part of vessel, watercraft
is a kind of board, plank
CIDE DICTIONARY
Strake, imp.
Strake, n. [See Streak.].
- A streak. [1913 Webster]
- An iron band by which the fellies of a wheel are secured to each other, being not continuous, as the tire is, but made up of separate pieces. [1913 Webster]
- One breadth of planks or plates forming a continuous range on the bottom or sides of a vessel, reaching from the stem to the stern; a streak. [1913 Webster]" The planks or plates next the keel are called the garboard strakes; the next, or the heavy strakes at the bilge, are the bilge strakes; the next, from the water line to the lower port sill, the wales; and the upper parts of the sides, the sheer strakes." [1913 Webster]
- A trough for washing broken ore, gravel, or sand; a launder. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Strake, n.
1 a continuous line of planking or plates from the stem to the stern of a ship.
2 a section of the iron rim of a wheel.
1 a continuous line of planking or plates from the stem to the stern of a ship.
2 a section of the iron rim of a wheel.
Etymology
ME: prob. rel. to OE streccan STRETCH
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