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Meaning of 'strake' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Strake
- imp. of Strike.
2 . Strake [ n.]
- A streak.
- An iron band by which the fellies of a wheel are secured to each other, being not continuous, as the tire is, but made up of separate pieces.
- One breadth of planks or plates forming a continuous range on the bottom or sides of a vessel, reaching from the stem to the stern; a streak.
- A trough for washing broken ore, gravel, or sand; a launder.

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strabism strabismometer strabismus strabotomy straddle straddled straddling stradometrical straggle straggled

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