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What (who) is strake - definition
STRIP OF PLANKING OR PLATING ON A SHIP'S HULL
Strake edge jointing; Garboard
![Garboard strakes and related near-keel members](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Garboard strake illustration for the article "Strake".jpg?width=200 "Garboard strakes and related near-keel members")
strake
¦ noun
1. a continuous line of planking or plates from the stem to the stern of a ship or boat.
2. a protruding ridge fitted to an aircraft or other structure to improve aerodynamic stability.
Origin
ME: from Anglo-Latin stracus, straca; prob. from the Gmc base of stretch.
strake
n.
(Ship building.) Streak, range of planks (on the side of a vessel).
Strake
·- imp. of Strike.
II. Strake ·noun A Streak.
III. Strake ·noun A trough for washing broken ore, gravel, or sand; a launder.
IV. Strake ·noun An iron band by which the fellies of a wheel are secured to each other, being not continuous, as the tire is, but made up of separate pieces.
V. Strake ·noun One breadth of planks or plates forming a continuous range on the bottom or sides of a vessel, reaching from the stem to the stern; a streak.
Wikipedia
Strake
On a vessel's hull, a strake is a longitudinal course of planking or plating which runs from the boat's stempost (at the bows) to the sternpost or transom (at the rear). The garboard strakes are the two immediately adjacent to the keel on each side.
The word derives from traditional wooden boat building methods, used in both carvel and clinker construction. In a metal ship, a strake is a course of plating.
Examples of use of strake
1. James Tegnelia, director of the DTRA, has acknowledged there is now no way to transport a single conventional bomb of the type Divine Strake will test.
2. The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) planned to conduct Divine Strake last June, but a Reno lawyer got an injunction to stop it.
3. The government is in touch with all strake holders to give it the final shape for tabling it before the National Assembly after Eid–ul–Fitr, he said.
4. Divine Strake will demonstrate the impact on deeply buried tunnels should a U.S. complex be attacked, or should the United States attack a bunker in another country.
5. The experiment, dubbed Divine Strake, was planned as a test of the nation‘s ability to deal with underground facilities that produce and store weapons of mass destruction.