Definition of Strakes

1. Noun. (plural of strake) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Strakes

1. strake [n] - See also: strake

Lexicographical Neighbors of Strakes

straitjacketed
straitjacketing
straitjackets
straitlaced
straitlacedly
straitlacedness
straitly
straitness
straitnesses
straits
straitwaistcoat
straitwaistcoated
straitwaistcoats
strake
straked
strakes (current term)
strakhovite
stramash
stramashes
stramazoun
stramazouns
stramenopile
stramenopiles
stramineous
strammel
strammels
stramonies
stramonium
stramoniums
stramony

Literary usage of Strakes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elements of Metallurgy: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Extracting Metals by John Arthur Phillips (1887)
"CONCENTRATION RY strakes.—The discharge from the screens in front of the battery-boxes is diluted with a certain amount of clear water, and conducted over ..."

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The shift of plank is the manner of arranging the butts of the several strakes. In the ships of the British navy the butte were not allowed to occur in the ..."

3. Naval Architecture: A Treatise on Laying Off and Building Wood, Iron, and by Samuel James Pope Thearle (1876)
"... list being given in the order of the respective assemblages, beginning at the topside (see Plate LXXIV.). The sheer strakes were situated between the ..."

4. Ship-building in Iron and Wood by Andrew Murray, Robert Murray, Augustin Francis Bullock Creuze (1863)
"A thick strake, or a combination of several thick strakes are worked wherever it is ... The upper strakes of plank, or assemblages of external planks, ..."

5. An Outline of Ship Building, Theoretical and Practical by Theodore Delavan Wilson, Edward James Reed, Titus Evans Dodge (1873)
"remaining strakes are put in after the decks have been framed, ... Bilge-strakes are strakes of heavy white oak or yellow pine plank worked over the ..."

6. Practical Shipbuilding: A Treatise on the Structural Design and Building of by A. Campbell Holms (1908)
"If now the opposite extreme be considered, of very narrow strakes, it is evident that with plates of the same length as formerly, the numerous joints might ..."

7. Ships' Boats: Their Qualities, Construction, Equipment, and Launching Appliances by Ernest Walter Blocksidge (1920)
"... ix CLINKER-BUIM BOATS OF CLASSES IA, IB, AND 111. Dimensions of boats. Total No. of strakes. ..."

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