🚢 A ship plank 🪚 To add planks

to strake

9.9

To fix long planks along a ship's side to make the hull stronger

verb
/streɪk/

Specialized

: 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

1 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

garboard strake

Specialized

1 9.9

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

lap-strake

Specialized

9.9

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

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.