Nautical. a continuous course of planks or plates on a ship forming a hull shell, deck, etc.
Origin
1300-50;Middle English; apparently akin to stretch
Related forms
straked, adjective
Examples from the web for strake
Here, the media has done a poor job, raising the strake for confrontation through distortion.
For the strake-off configuration, the flow tends pull away from the surface.
The strake vortices provide downwash that effectively eliminates this flow behavior.
These materials had poor mechanical properties, and a number of strake segments failed.
Rubber or welded aluminum split pipe rub strake shall be provided at the deck edge.
The covering boards or saddle above the sheer strake are oak and painted white.
Oak transverse frames steamed into place run full from the strake.
British Dictionary definitions for strake
strake
/streɪk/
noun
1.
a curved metal plate forming part of the metal rim on a wooden wheel
any metal plate let into a rubber tyre
2.
(nautical) Also called streak. one of a continuous range of planks or plates forming the side of a vessel
3.
a profiled piece of wood carried on an arm that rotates round a fixed post: used to sweep the internal shape of a mould, as for a bell or a ship's propeller blade, in sand or loam