strake

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[2] "Raiding-strake," the final blow which clears up everything.

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  1. noun Nautical A single continuous line of planking or metal plating extending on a vessel's hull from stem to stern.

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  • Her bows rose and fell and above the storm he could hear her rubbing-strake grind against the jetty. —  Last Ditch - Ngaio Marsh - Roderick Alleyn 29
  • This thing was lashed to the garboard-strake of the main-to'gallant mizzen-yard amidships, [19] and there was nothing to do but cut the lashings and heave it over; it would do the rest. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Chapters From My Autobiography, by Mark Twain.
  • Inflatable boat sports series has the heavy duty inflatable hull V-keel with additional rubbing strake, and engineering, guarantee superior handling and performance. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • I ken wha wad get the raiding-strake[2] if I was to gie them the run o' the raubit-house; and where wad a' my night-sports be? —  Viking Boys
  • The water in the main channel was so deep that it was clean up to the critter's garboard strake, and still, by the creepin', I couldn't get him out of a walk. —  Fair Harbor
 

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  1. Middle English, probably from Old English *straca.

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  1. from Middle English straken; a collateral form of streken, striken, a secondary form of striken, from Anglo-Saxon strīcan (preterit strāc), go, pass swiftly over: see streak, strike, and stroke. Hence ult. straggle.
  2. Scots also straik; from Middle English strake; in part a variant of streke, modern English streak, and in part of strok, modern English stroke: see strake, streak, stroke.
 

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