Strake on a rock, that under water lay, And perished past all recoverie.
The bride she drew a long bodkin, Frae out her gay head-gear, And strake fair Annet unto the heart, That word she nevir spak mair.
He said 'twas all self-loving and seeking of mine ease that alone did make me for to hesitate; and that if I had loved God and my neighbour better than myself, I would have strake hands with him at once.
Sir Matthew spake no worde, but strake his horse with the spurrs sorer than he dyde before.
Than Sir Mathewe strake asonder the speare wyth his swerde.
Horseley with an-other broad Arrow strake the yeaman through the braine, 224 that hee ffell downe to the haches againe: sore of his wound that hee did bleed.
A fracture was caused in the outer bottom extending from the shelf plate to upper edge of strake next the keel on the starboard side, and from the shelf plate to upper edge of flat keel plate on the port side.
Was it honest a godly dyvyne wight 15 With ony mortal strake to wond in fight?
The bride she drew a long bodkin Frae out her gay head-gear, And strake Fair Annet unto the heart, That word spak nevir mair.
Yet from the tree he would not start, But he clinged to it with might and main; Under the collar then of his jack He strake Sir Andrew through the brain.
With that he swarved the mainmast tree, So did he it with might and main; Horsley, with a bearing arrow, Strake the Gordon through the brain.
With that he swarved the mainmast tree, So did he it with might and main; Horsley, with another broad arrow, Strake the yeoman through the brain.
The nextan pain that strake sweet Willie, It was into the head; Then sighing sair said sweet Willie, "I fear my lady's dead.
The nextan pain thatstrake sweet Willie, It was into the back; Then sighing sair said sweet Willie, 35 "These pains are women's wreck.
He's done him to her father's stable, Where steeds stood baith wicht and able; Then he strake ane upon the back, 35 The swiftest gae his head a wap.
The bride she drew a long bodkin Frae out her gay head-gear, And strakefair Annet unto the heart, That word she nevir spak mair.
In the ende the good Hauke, with her sharpe talendes, agayne seazed vpon the Egle's neck, and wyth her beake strake her starke dead, wherewithall she fel downe amid the company that wayted vpon the king.
The gunwale of a boat is a piece of timber going round the upper sheer-strake as a binder for its top-work.
A movable upper strake which is attached by stud-pins on the gunwales of boats to keep out the spray.
That which is placed between the garboard-strake and lower back-strake.
A strake thicker than those of the bottom, wrought round the gunwales, and lined within the poppets.
Spirkitting is also used to denote the strake of ceiling between the upper-deck and the plank-sheer of a merchantman; otherwise known as quick-work.
Also the principal strakes of plank in a vessel, especially the sheer-strake and wales, which are bolted to the knees and shelf-pieces.
A narrow strake of board fastened withinside to support the thwarts.
Garboard strake or streak, the first range or strake of planks laid on a ship's bottom next the keel.
Shipbuilding) Defn: The endmost plank of a strake which stops short of the stem or stern.
Shipbuilding) Defn: An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
Sheer strake (Shipbuilding), thestrake under the gunwale on the top side.
Limber strake (Shipbuilding), the first course of inside planking next the keelson.
Shipbuilding) Defn: The endmost plank of a strake which reaches the stem or stern.
In this short strake not only is ore agitated and washed with a wooden scrubber, but boys also separate the concentrates from the broken rock in them and collect them in tubs.
Then he pounds the sides of the loaded strake with a wooden mallet, in order that the tin-stone clinging to the sides may fall off; all that has settled in it, he throws out with a wooden shovel which has a short handle.
The whole strake is covered by six stretched pieces of canvas, smoothed with a stick.
Under each strake is a sill, from a socket in which a round pole rises, and is held by half an iron ring in a beam of the building, so that it may revolve; this pole is nine feet long and a palm thick.
Near this ordinary strakethere is generally a canvas strake.
As soon as the strake is filled with the material which has been washed, he closes the mouth of the tank and continues washing in the other strake, and then the plug is withdrawn and the water and tin-stone flow down into a tank below.
In this way the water carries off these impurities from the strake into the settling-pit because they are lighter, and leaves the tin-stone on the table because it is heavier.
However, the buddle and strake which appear at that time, are but modest improvements over the board described by Agatharchides in the quotation above.
A low cross-board is placed in the strake near the head, in order that the largest sized tin-stone may settle there.
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.
The nextan pain that strake Sweet Willie, It was into the head; Then sighing sair said Sweet Willie, I fear my lady's dead!
The nextan pain that strake Sweet Willie, It was into the back; Then sighing sair said Sweet Willie, These pains are women's wreck!
To all the which points, he answered by signes as he was commanded, by the which he affirmed, or denied any thing, according as he strake the boord twise or thrise togither.
Above the knee good Wallace has him ta'en, Through thigh and brawn in sunderstrake the bane.
North where the bergs careen, The spray of seas unseen Smokes round my head and freezes in the falling; South where the corals breed, The footless, floating weed Folds me and fouls me, strake on strake upcrawling.
And then he drew out his sword and strake many knights to the earth, so that all those that saw him marvelled that ever one knight might do so great deeds of arms.
But through Sir Tristram's great force, hestrake Sir Sagramor from his horse.
And when he saw them come, he smote a sore stroke unto Sir Raynold, that he fell off his horse to the ground, and then he struck to the other two brethren, and at two strokes he strake them down to the earth.
Yet at the last Sir Beaumains strake him to the earth, and as he would have slain the red knight he cried mercy, saying, Noble knight slay me not, and I shall yield me to thee with fifty knights with me that be at my commandment.
Then he galloped farther, and fet his course, and came hurling upon Sir Palamides, and there he strake him a part through the body, that he fell from his horse to the earth.
Then Sir Tristram was ware of the sword of the knight there as it lay, and so thither he ran, and took up the sword and strake off Sir Tauleas's head, and so he went his way to the herdmen again.
And then the king arose lightly, and gat his horse lightly again, and then he strake fiercely at Sir Tristram many great strokes.
Somewhile they foined, somewhile they strakeas wild men.
And then they all three left Sir Kay, and turned unto Sir Launcelot, and there began great battle, for they alight all three, and strake many great strokes at Sir Launcelot, and assailed him on every side.
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