strake

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.

   “The separate pieces of iron, forming together the fitting of the wheel, are called strakes, and the great nails by which they are fastened to the woodwork, and which had thick projecting heads, are called strake-nails and occasionally, it seems, cart-nails, great nails, or frets.”

2. isim A type of aerodynamic surface mounted on an aircraft fuselage to fine-tune the airflow.
3. isim Also used more generally to regulate fluid flow in pipes or vents to prevent turbulence or vortexes.
4. isim A continuous line of plates or planks running from bow to stern that contributes to a vessel's skin. (FM 55-501).

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

5. isim A shaped piece of wood used to level a bed or contour the shape of a mould, as for a bell
6. isim A trough for washing broken ore, gravel, or sand; a launder.
7. isim A streak.

   “And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut^([sic]) tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.”

8. fiil To stretch.
9. fiil simple past of strike

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