Fig. 9, A side view of rimmed hoop wh A strake, which is the short ifoi with which the common wheel is rung.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Treatise on Carriages: Comprehending Coaches, Chariots, Phaetons ...] Reference

"strake," made a keen top-note to the mood of summer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dew of Their Youth] Reference

The 13. we strake all our sailes and mended our ship.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation] Reference

The claws dug into the wash strake and the rope went taut.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Falcons of Montabard]

Close to her garboard strake on the starboard side he saw where.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"] Reference

The garboard strake is the very bottom-most plate in the bottom of.    From Wordnik.com.  [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896] Reference

In the language of scripture, "we strake sail, and so were driven.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference

A strake, by the way, is a metal strap that holds boats or planes together.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firedoglake » Sneaking in Another Debt Ceiling Rise] Reference

It was the outrigger, still attached to the upper strake and some fragments of rib.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Worlds To Conquer]

Sabin leaped onto the top strake of the galley and grasped a halyard to steady himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Falcons of Montabard]

Sir Matthew spake no word, but strake his horse with the spurs sorer than he did before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference

He breathed deeply of the salt spray and fumed, briefly, gazing over the stern's sheer-strake.    From Wordnik.com.  [beneath an opal moon]

April 12th, 2006 at 6:27 pm divine strake is planned for June 2, i think and YKos starts the 8th?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firedoglake » Demand Sane Leadership On Iran] Reference

The keel and stem are both in one piece, as shown, and to this the garboard strake is to be fastened.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884] Reference

The bands were red, white, and blue and there was a "bright" strake, or alternate black and varnished bands.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pioneer Steamship Savannah: A Study for a Scale Model United States National Museum Bulletin 228, 1961, pages 61-80] Reference

Finally he was stricken to the earth, and they cut off his arms and legs and then strake his body all to pieces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference

But Cadfael counted what he took to be oar-ports in the third strake of the hull, twelve of them in this steerboard side.    From Wordnik.com.  [His Disposition] Reference

Boldly coloured round shields lined the wash strake, increasing her freeboard and protecting her passengers from flying spray.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Falcons of Montabard]

One shot more vvas then made, which strake the foote of the fort vvall, which vvas all massiue timber of great trees like Mastes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage] Reference

Folds me and fouls me, strake on strake upcrawling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seven Seas] Reference

Heard the seas like drunken men pounding at her strake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Departmental Ditties & Barrack Room Ballads] Reference

Some strake the measure o 'justice, but ye gie't heapit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Proverbs of Scotland] Reference

Bent over and patted her garboard strake, and called upon Wooden.    From Wordnik.com.  [From a Cornish Window A New Edition] Reference

Bishop, with two of his squires, and strake off their heads at the.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers] Reference

But Lionel Flood had a soft strake in him, and India found it out.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales] Reference

But when t 'gran'father's clock strake fower he said I mun away to my bed.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Tales of the Ridings] Reference

"I've got one fraction of an inch play, at any rate," said the garboard-strake, triumphantly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Day's Work - Volume 1] Reference

The ice-skin is of greenheart, and covers the whole ship's side from the keel to 18 inches from the sheer strake.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 — Volume 2] Reference

Tobias met his father at the door, and strake of the gall on his father's eyes, saying: Be of good hope, my father.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy] Reference

This operation discovered, that three feet of the third strake, under the wale, were staved and the timbers within started.    From Wordnik.com.  [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time] Reference

These were secured to the ship with chains and hooks, the latter being inserted through the side lights in her sheer strake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men of Invention and Industry] Reference

Here spoke a sea-valve that communicated directly with the water outside, and was seated not very far from the garboard-strake.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Day's Work - Volume 1] Reference

Her slim black body, her white, beautifully set sails -- not a strake or an inch of canvas on her that he did not know and love.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wind Bloweth] Reference

"Do not fire until I give the word, then pour your broadside in upon her decks -- not a shot below the sheer-strake for your lives.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Congo Rovers A Story of the Slave Squadron] Reference

Here again they discovered four feet of a plank, in the third strake under the wale, so shaken, as to make it necessary to be replaced.    From Wordnik.com.  [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time] Reference

On stripping off the sheathing, three feet of the third strake under the wale were found to be stove in, and the timbers within started.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Cook His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries] Reference