strake
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈstɹeɪk/
strake (plural strakes)
- (obsolete) An iron fitting of a medieval cart wheel.
- Synonyms: box, bushel
- (aviation) A type of aerodynamic surface mounted on an aircraft fuselage to fine-tune the airflow.
- (nautical, archaic) A continuous line of plates or planks running from bow to stern that contributes to a vessel's skin. (FM 55-501).
- (engineering) A shaped piece of wood used to level a bed or contour the shape of a mould, as for a bell
- A trough for washing broken ore, gravel, or sand; a launder.
- (obsolete) A streak.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Genesis 30:37 ↗:
- And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut
[ sic] tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
- And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut
- French: virure
strake (strakes, present participle straking; past and past participle straked)
- (obsolete) To stretch.
- (obsolete) simple past tense of strike
- Did'st thou not see a bleeding hind Whose right haunch earst my stedfast arrow strake.
, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia - But, when he strake — which came so thick as if every blow would strive to be foremost — his arm seemed still a postillion of death.
- But when of Eglantine he spake, / His strings melodiously he strake.
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