strake

[ streyk ]

/ streɪk /

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noun

Nautical. a continuous course of planks or plates on a ship forming a hull shell, deck, etc.

Origin of strake

1300–50; Middle English; apparently akin to stretch

OTHER WORDS FROM strake

straked, adjective

Words nearby strake

straitjacket, strait-lace, strait-laced, Straits dollar, Straits Settlements, strake, Stralsund, stramash, stramineous, stramonium, strand

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Example sentences from the Web for strake

By the way, I don't want to interfere in a personal matter, but I'd take it as a favor if you wouldn't kill Strake quite.
A Master of Fortune|Cutcliffe Hyne
Sir Matthew spake no word, but strake his horse with the spurs sorer than he did before.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)|Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed
Would a bucket of sea-water revive him to make him tell us, Strake?
Syd Belton|George Manville Fenn
A boy throws the ore into one strake; if it is of poor quality he puts in a large amount of it, if it is rich he puts in less.
De Re Metallica|Georgius Agricola

“No,” he thought, “it can never be too dark for that;” and he went on to find Rogers bending over Strake.
Syd Belton|George Manville Fenn

British Dictionary definitions for strake

strake

/ (streɪk) /

noun

a curved metal plate forming part of the metal rim on a wooden wheel
any metal plate let into a rubber tyre

Also called: streak nautical one of a continuous range of planks or plates forming the side of a vessel

a profiled piece of wood carried on an arm that rotates round a fixed post: used to sweep the internal shape of a mould, as for a bell or a ship's propeller blade, in sand or loam

Word Origin for strake

C14: related to Old English streccan to stretch

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

单词	strake
释义	strake [ streyk ] / streɪk / SEE SYNONYMS FOR strake ON THESAURUS.COM noun Nautical. a continuous course of planks or plates on a ship forming a hull shell, deck, etc. Origin of strake 1300–50; Middle English; apparently akin to stretch OTHER WORDS FROM strake straked, adjective Words nearby strake straitjacket, strait-lace, strait-laced, Straits dollar, Straits Settlements, strake, Stralsund, stramash, stramineous, stramonium, strand Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for strake By the way, I don't want to interfere in a personal matter, but I'd take it as a favor if you wouldn't kill Strake quite. A Master of Fortune\|Cutcliffe Hyne Sir Matthew spake no word, but strake his horse with the spurs sorer than he did before. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)\|Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed Would a bucket of sea-water revive him to make him tell us, Strake? Syd Belton\|George Manville Fenn A boy throws the ore into one strake; if it is of poor quality he puts in a large amount of it, if it is rich he puts in less. De Re Metallica\|Georgius Agricola “No,” he thought, “it can never be too dark for that;” and he went on to find Rogers bending over Strake. Syd Belton\|George Manville Fenn British Dictionary definitions for strake strake / (streɪk) / noun a curved metal plate forming part of the metal rim on a wooden wheel any metal plate let into a rubber tyre Also called: streak nautical one of a continuous range of planks or plates forming the side of a vessel a profiled piece of wood carried on an arm that rotates round a fixed post: used to sweep the internal shape of a mould, as for a bell or a ship's propeller blade, in sand or loam Word Origin for strake C14: related to Old English streccan to stretch Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to strake smear, variegate, spot, daub, band, fleck, stripe, slash, dapple, marble, vein, striate
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strake

noun

Origin of strake

OTHER WORDS FROM strake

Words nearby strake

Example sentences from the Web for strake

British Dictionary definitions for strake

noun

Word Origin for strake

Words related to strake