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🚢 A ship plank 🪚 To add planks
to strake

to strake

9.9
To fix long planks along a ship's side to make the hull stronger
  • verb
  • /streɪk/
  • Specialized
translation icon : estribar
  • Shipbuilders have straked vessels this way for centuries to improve durability.

Examples

  • They straked the hull with new wood.

  • The shipwright strakes the vessel carefully.

  • The workers carefully straked the wooden hull to ensure it was watertight.

  • Before painting, the team strakes the boat with new planks for extra strength.

  • They decided to strake the ship with new planks to enhance its durability.

  • To improve the vessel's performance, the crew needed to strake the hull carefully.

  • Before launching, they plan to strake the sides of the boat to protect it from the sea.

Synonyms

to stave
vsto strake
19 9.9

To fit long narrow pieces of wood together to make things like barrels or buckets

is used specifically on a ship hull rather than on other objects

Compounds

lap-strake
  • Specialized
9.9

The outer part of a boat made from boards that overlap along their edges

garboard strake
  • Specialized
9.9

A row of planks next to the keel on the bottom of a wooden boat

Surface Forms

strake infinitive
straked past
straked past participle
straking present participle
strakes third person singular

Etymology

Strake as a verb comes from the same idea: to put or mark a long line of planks along a ship's side, like adding a wooden stripe. So to strake a hull is to fit those long planks to make the ship stronger and more watertight.