Definitionn. thick plank forming a ridge along the side of a wooden ship
Last update: June 28, 2015
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"Ay, strake and keelson,--as good a one as though I had got my sap in the Maine forests." [Please select]
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I'm the garboard-strake, and I'm twice as thick as most of the others, and I ought to know something. [Please select]
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Here spoke a sea-valve that communicated directly with the water outside, and was seated not very far from the garboard-strake. [Please select]
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"I've got one fraction of an inch play, at any rate," said the garboard-strake, triumphantly. [Please select]
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The garboard-strake is the lowest plate in the bottom of a ship, and the Dimbula's garboard-strake was nearly three-quarters of an inch mild steel. [Please select]
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"The sea pushes me up in a way I should never have expected," the strake grunted, "and the cargo pushes me down, and, between the two, I don't know what I'm supposed to do."' [Please select]
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