Strake

Quick meaning: Strake is a noun meaning (aviation) A type of aerodynamic surface mounted on an aircraft fuselage to fine-tune the airflow.

Meaning

(aviation) A type of aerodynamic surface mounted on an aircraft fuselage to fine-tune the airflow.

More Meanings

1. (fluid dynamics) Also used more generally to regulate fluid flow in pipes or vents to prevent turbulence or vortexes.
2. (nautical) A continuous line of plates or planks running from bow to stern that contributes to a vessel's skin. (FM 55-501).
3. (engineering) A shaped piece of wood used to level a bed or contour the shape of a mould, as for a bell
4. A trough for washing broken ore, gravel, or sand; a launder.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To stretch.
6. (archaic) An iron fitting of a traditional wooden wheel, such as a hub component or bearing (e.g., box, bushel), a cleat, or a rim covering.
7. (obsolete) A streak.

Example Sentences

His burning eyen, whom bloody strakes did staine

Hayle Groome; didst not thou see a bleeding Hind, / Whose right haunch earst my stedfast arrow strake?

You felt the power of the Olympic's twenty-nine boilers transmitted upward through the strakes of the hull.

But only last night a telephone call roused Mr. Tulloch from his bed—a sheer-strake gone; how long for repairs?

Word Forms

• strakes
• straking
• straked

Synonyms for strake

Depending on context, synonyms include wale.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include wale, fascia, band, garboard, gunwale, pad.

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