strake

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But other special rights for pact members, like helping shape acquisitions or industrial strategy, would vanish, leaving the government with a strake but less clout than before.

From Reuters • Sep. 28, 2012

Strake width remains approximately the same, although the outer strake now runs the full length of the hull for better leverage to eliminate bow rise and add planing lift.

From Time Magazine Archive

But anybody who can tell a top carling from a garboard strake will want a copy of Spring Tides in his dunnage the next time he does a windward dozen.

From Time Magazine Archive

Though the Crepuscule was armed with but sixteen guns, the noise of their detonation was great, and as we labored to stand in the darkness, cannon blasts quaked the whole ship from strake to stringer.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Spī′ling, building-piles: the edge-curve of a plank or of a strake in a vessel's hull.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various