Category:Strake

Strake, obs.

Defn: imp. of strike. Spenser.

Strake Strake, n. Etym: [see streak.]

1. A streak. [obs.] Spenser."White Strake." Gen. xxx. 37.

2. An iron band by which the fellies of a wheel are secured to each Other, being not continuous, as the tire is, but made up of separate Pieces.

3. (shipbuilding)

Defn: one breadth of planks or plates forming a continuous range on The bottom or sides of a vessel, reaching from the stem to the stern; A streak.

Note: the planks or plates next the keel are called the garboard Strakes; the next, or the heavy strakes at the bilge, are the bilge Strakes; the next, from the water line to the lower port sill, the Wales; and the upper parts of the sides, the sheer strakes.

4. (mining)

Defn: a trough for washing broken ore, gravel, or sand; a launder.