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Definition of Strake
1. Noun. Thick plank forming a ridge along the side of a wooden ship.
Specialized synonyms: Garboard, Garboard Plank, Garboard Strake, Gun Rest, Gunnel, Gunwale
Group relationships: Vessel, Watercraft
Generic synonyms: Board, Plank
Definition of Strake
1. n. A streak.
Definition of Strake
1. Noun. (obsolete) An iron fitting of a medieval cart wheel. ¹
2. Noun. (aviation) A type of aerodynamic surface mounted on an aircraft fuselage to fine-tune the airflow. ¹
3. Noun. (nautical archaic) A continuous line of plates or planks running from bow to stern that contributes to a vessel's skin. (FM 55-501). ¹
4. Noun. (engineering) a shaped piece of wood used to level a bed or contour the shape of a mould, as for a bell ¹
5. Verb. (obsolete) To stretch [akin to Old English: streccan]. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Strake
1. a line of planking extending along a ship's hull [n -S] : STRAKED [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Strake
Literary usage of Strake
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute by United States Naval Institute (1897)
"3, is an outer strake of manganese bronze Ty thick amidship, ... The lap with
strake No. 2 is secured by two rows of rivets of bronze fys" diameter. ..."
2. Practical Shipbuilding: A Treatise on the Structural Design and Building of by A. Campbell Holms (1918)
"19, were the sheer strake, then, having no strake above it, ... The maximum
strength of a strake of shell plating, for instance, is limited to its sectional ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... top strake, stem, and apron together ; and aft the gunwale and top strake are
secured to the transom by cither a wooden or iron knee. ..."
4. The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland by Scotland Privy Council (1904)
"... strake my said spous, being lying in childbirth, to the endangering of her
lyfe, so as I wes forced to leave the house and they keeped the same till the ..."
5. The Fouling and Corrosion of Iron Ships: Their Causes and Means of by Charles Frederick T. Young (1867)
"Up to the year 1863, the most general plan of constructing iron ships was that
known as the " in-and-out" strake system, formed by placing one or every ..."
6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Bulkheads are next concreted and the boat finished with a wooden sheer strake
and gunwale. ... strake ..."
7. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... a wooden sheer strake and gunwale. In 1917 a concrete lighter was built at
Pors- grund, Norway, and its success led to the construction of larger ships ..."
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