Definitions
thick plank forming a ridge along the side of a wooden ship
Word origin
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”).
Used in a sentence
“Iron strakes were the separate plates fitted to a cart wheel before the use of the iron ring or tyre. [Evans was glossing the term as encountered in a ledger entry of 1827.]”
“But only last night a telephone call roused Mr. Tulloch from his bed—a sheer-strake gone; how long for repairs?”
“You felt the power of the Olympic's twenty-nine boilers transmitted upward through the strakes of the hull.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Hull plank”6 letters
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