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Strake

noun
1.
Thick plank forming a ridge along the side of a wooden ship.  Synonym: wale.



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"Strake" Quotes from Famous Books



... few nails, and we must try to find some substance which will answer the purpose of pitch," observed the mate. "Doctor, I dare say you'll help us. We will strengthen her with additional planks, and get a strake put on above her gunwale. It will be a work of toil to cut the planks, but it must be done, and she will then be fit ...
— Peter Trawl - The Adventures of a Whaler • W. H. G. Kingston
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... astonied at the strange sights which he saw before, and ignorant of the Latine tongue, roade on and spake never a word: The souldier unable to refraine his insolence, and offended at his silence, strake him on the shoulders as he sate on my backe; then my master gently made answer that he understood not what he said, whereat the souldier angerly demanded againe, whither he roade with his Asse? Marry (quoth he) to the next City: But I (quoth the souldier) have need of his helpe, to carry the ...
— The Golden Asse • Lucius Apuleius
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Words linked to "Strake" :   vessel, watercraft, garboard plank, plank, gunnel, garboard, gunwale, gun rest, board


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