strake
IPA: strˈeɪk
noun
- (archaic) An iron fitting of a traditional wooden wheel, such as a hub component or bearing (e.g., box, bushel), a cleat, or a rim covering.
- (aviation) A type of aerodynamic surface mounted on an aircraft fuselage to fine-tune the airflow.
- (fluid dynamics) Also used more generally to regulate fluid flow in pipes or vents to prevent turbulence or vortexes.
- (nautical) 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.
verb
- (obsolete) To stretch.
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Examples of "strake" in Sentences
- This one is known as a stealer or stealer strake.
- Strake has also served on the boards of four banks.
- "strake," made a keen top-note to the mood of summer.
- HDMLs were fitted with a deeper section rubbing strake aft.
- There was also a long, shallow strake over the rear fuselage.
- It extended vertically from the sheer strake to the water line.
- A strake used for flooring or paving work is often called a 'screed'.
- A strake, by the way, is a metal strap that holds boats or planes together.
- The strake immediately adjacent to the keel is known as the garboard strake.
- The strake immediately adjacent to the keel is known as the garboard strake .
- In old vessels, a rubbing strake was built in just below a carvel sheer strake.
- Fig. 9, A side view of rimmed hoop wh A strake, which is the short ifoi with which the common wheel is rung.
- In both cars a single strake of brightwork divides the grille and midlines the prominent, enamel-like Mercedes star.
- But Cadfael counted what he took to be oar-ports in the third strake of the hull, twelve of them in this steerboard side.
- Her garboard strake is three inches thick; her planking two and one-half inches thick; her deck - planking two inches thick and in all her planking there are no butts.
- The Countryman debuts some tasteful updates to the styling language—the strake at the front fender, the turned-down corners of the of the grille—but at a glance, the Countryman looks like a Mini Cooper S that was Xeroxed at 130%.
- The clear metallic sound of the "strake" or sharpening strop, covered with pure white Loch Skerrow sand set in grease, which scythemen universally use in Galloway, cut through the slumberous hum of the noonday air like the blade itself through the grass.
- According to Wikipedia, there are three meanings of "strake": 1. a strip of planking between them on the turn of the bilge; 2. a device for controlling air flow over an aircraft; and 3. a tool for tamping down and leveling semi-fluid materials into a mould (such as poured concrete, for example).