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
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
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
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
The schooner dipped and dipped, lower and lower; strake after strake disappeared, until the planks seemed to become lost, and the vessel to be settling beam under.
From In the Yellow Sea by Frith, Henry
And what about those jazzy plastic strakes framing the gloss-black crossbar?
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
But the exhibit quickly jumped to flashier models, like a 1984 Testarossa with its side strakes and horizontal design elements that make it look impossibly low and wide.
From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 2017
Though the present day Hunt firm has tweaked the original design, the V-hull still has a 21-degree deadrise, fine entry and spray-knocking lifting strakes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like every Ocean Yacht, the Super Sport possesses increased deadrise forward to produce a deeper entry while down-angled lifting strakes straighten the water flow over the rudders and propellers for increased stability.
From Time Magazine Archive
No matter where you were on the ship, you felt the power of the Olympic's twenty-nine boilers transmitted upward through the strakes of the hull.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
