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strake

  [streyk]
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–noun
Nautical. a continuous course of planks or plates on a ship forming a hull shell, deck, etc.
Origin:
1300–50; ME; appar. akin to stretch

Related forms:
straked, adjective
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strake   (strāk)   
n.   Nautical
A single continuous line of planking or metal plating extending on a vessel's hull from stem to stern.

[Middle English, probably from Old English *straca.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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