strake
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strake¹
- /ˈstɹeɪk/
Rhymes with -eɪk
Where it comes from
From Middle English strake, from Old English *straca (> Anglo-Latin straca), from Proto-West Germanic *strakō, from Proto-Germanic *strakaz (“straight”). Akin to Old English streċċan (“to make straight, stretch”).
noun strakes
- An iron fitting of a traditional wooden wheel, such as a hub component or bearing (e.g., box, bushel), a cleat, or a rim covering. The separate pieces of iron, forming together the fitting of the wheel, are called strakes, and the great nails by which they are fastened to the woodwork, and which had thick projecting heads, are called strake-nails and occasionally, it seems, cart-nails, great nails, or frets.
- A type of aerodynamic surface mounted on an aircraft fuselage to fine-tune the airflow.
- Also used more generally to regulate fluid flow in pipes or vents to prevent turbulence or vortexes.
- A continuous line of plates or planks running from bow to stern that contributes to a vessel's skin. (FM 55-501). With regard to materials, all the frames should be of oak and so should the stem piece, stern post, upper portion of dead woods, knight heads, apron, beams, shelf clamp, bilge strakes, and keelson; the keel will generally be found to be either English or American elm. The garboard strakes are genera
- A shaped piece of wood used to level a bed or contour the shape of a mould, as for a bell
- A trough for washing broken ore, gravel, or sand; a launder.
- A streak. And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut^([sic]) tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
verb strakes · straking · straked
- To stretch.
strake²
- /ˈstɹeɪk/
Rhymes with -eɪk
verb
- simple past of strike Hayle Groome; didst not thou see a bleeding Hind, / Whose right haunch earst my stedfast arrow strake?
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noun continuous line of planks or plates in a vessel's hull
| Français | virure |
|---|---|
| עברית | טוּר לוּחוֹת tur lukhot |
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