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Land :: Land (n.) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; -- called also landing.

Hood :: Hood (n.) The endmost plank of a strake which reaches the stem or stern.

Berthing :: Berthing (n.) The planking outside of a vessel, above the sheer strake..

Strake :: Strake (n.) 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..

Lapstrake :: Lapstrake (a.) Made with boards whose edges lap one over another; clinker-built; -- said of boats.

Wale :: Wale (n.) Certain sets or strakes of the outside planking of a vessel; as, the main wales, or the strakes of planking under the port sills of the gun deck; channel wales, or those along the spar deck, etc..

Strake :: Strake () imp. of Strike.

Stealing :: Stealer (n.) The endmost plank of a strake which stops short of the stem or stern.

Garboard :: Garboard (n.) One of the planks next the keel on the outside, which form a garboard strake..

Strain :: Straik (n.) A strake.

Ringstraked :: Ringstraked (a.) Ring-streaked.

Streak :: Streak (n.) A strake.

String :: String (n.) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it..

Strake :: Strake (n.) 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..

Strake :: Strake (n.) A streak.

But :: But (v. t.) The joint where two planks in a strake meet.

Strale :: Strake (n.) A trough for washing broken ore, gravel, or sand; a launder..

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