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Meanings of strake in English

Thick plank forming a ridge along the side of a wooden ship.

Usage of strake in English
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But Lionel Flood had a soft strake in him, and India found it out.
The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales
2
Then, noticing the curved strake, he asked, "How you bend plank?"
The Valley of Horses
3
We will strengthen her with additional planks, and get a strake put on above her gunwale.
Peter Trawl; Or, The Adventures of a Whaler
4
Sir Matthew spake no word, but strake his horse with the spurs sorer than he did before.
Chronicle and Romance: Froissart, Malory, Holinshed / (The Harva...
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Ay, strake and keelson,-asgood a one as though I had got my sap in the Maine forests.
Richard Carvel — Volume 08
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Poor man, it knocked him silly, and he fell over the garboard-strake and barked his shin on the cat-heads.
The $30,000 Bequest, and Other Stories
7
This was the first strake.
The Valley of Horses
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This operation discovered, that three feet of the third strake, under the wale, were staved and the timbers within started.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume ...
9
I'm the garboard strake, and I'm twice as thick as most of the others, and I ought to know something.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896
10
The keel and stem are both in one piece, as shown, and to this the garboard strake is to be fastened.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884
11
The ice-skin is of greenheart, and covers the whole ship's side from the keel to 18 inches from the sheer strake.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition...
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Here spoke a sea-valve that communicated directly with the water outside and was seated not very far from the garboard strake.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896
13
These were secured to the ship with chains and hooks, the latter being inserted through the side lights in her sheer strake.
Men of Invention and Industry
14
Finally he was stricken to the earth, and they cut off his arms and legs and then strake his body all to pieces.
Chronicle and Romance: Froissart, Malory, Holinshed / (The Harva...
15
On stripping off the sheathing, three feet of the third strake under the wale were found to be stove in, and the timbers within started.
Captain Cook: His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries
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The South African
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