side straken.
/ˈsʌɪd streɪk/, U.S. /ˈsaɪd ˌstreɪk/ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > saw > [noun] > parts of saw-mill equipment
strake-shide1536
side strake1810
head block1811
muley1846
muley saw1852
saw pit1876
canter1889
1810 Trial between W. Leworthy & Globe Insurance Co. 158 The side strake of the saw-pit is 3 feet 2 inches from the beam, which supported the front of the upper shop.
1846 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. II. 703 The sawpit..has two stout timbers running the whole length, called side strakes.
1890 Somerset & Dorset Notes & Queries 1 257 A saw pit is, as often as not, entirely above ground, formed of a staging of posts carrying two horizontal beams, which latter are still called side-strakes.
1893 J. Salisbury Gloss. Words S.E. Worcs. Side-strakes, the side beams of a saw-pit.
2. A strake (strake n.1 3a) that forms part of the side of a wooden ship or boat.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > planking > each continuous line of planking
rising1405
strake1419
streak1611
side strake1873
1873 Let. 13 Dec. in Royal Comm. Unseaworthy Ships: Final Rep. (1874) II. 848/1 in Parl. Papers (C. 1027) XXXIV. 1 The butts of deck planks and side strakes are much drawn in this locality.
1883 Ann. Rep. Light-house Board U.S. 127 Bottom and side strakes to be 5/ 16 inch thick for about three-fifths the length of vessel midships.
1928 Man 28 131 The stern [of the canoe] is..built up of short boards connecting the after ends of the side strakes.
2000 R. A. Gould Archaeol. & Social Hist. Ships v. 124 Different methods of attaching the lower edge of the first side strake to the bottom plank were used.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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