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strake

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Noun

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun strake has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

strakeimp. 
     imp. of Strike.  Spenser.  [1913 Webster]
straken. [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.

Etymology
ME: prob. rel. to OE streccan STRETCH
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