How To Use strake In A Sentence
- The Bertram 31 and its prototype were designed with a remarkable 23-degree angle of deadrise at the transom with three lifting strakes on each side from the keel to the chine.
- It was Godfrey that straked him out all alone on this table. Old Man Savarin and Other Stories
- Fig. 9, A side view of rimmed hoop wh A strake, which is the short ifoi with which the common wheel is rung. A Treatise on Carriages: Comprehending Coaches, Chariots, Phaetons ...
- The strakes provide an aerodynamic balance to offset the effect of the radome on the upper surface of the fuselage.
- The Countryman debuts some tasteful updates to the styling language—the strake at the front fender, the turned-down corners of the of the grille—but at a glance, the Countryman looks like a Mini Cooper S that was Xeroxed at 130%. What Part of 'Mini' Did You Not Grasp, BMW?
- He would become an American or Australian Abraham, commanding like a monarch his flocks and his herds, his spotted and his ring-straked, his men-servants and his maids. Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- Through the leaves that hid his nest he could see the yellowing vines in the distance, and the meadows where the straked cows were at pasture, filling the silence of the sleeping country-side with their plaintive long-drawn lowing. Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House
- The program also includes the construction of four boats: two historic boats, one carvel, and one lapstrake. You’re Certifiable
- Replacing a strake in a lapstrake boat is a little more difficult than it is with a carvel-built boat.
- Photo Credit: Mark Thompson/Getty Images (Alonso's Renault), lapstrake/Flickr Jalopnik
