The Bulwark to be of Baltic Red Pine 1 inch thick, to be worked in narrow strakes about 5 inches broad.
Her hatch-combings were high, and the sea had not washed clear over them yet, while her high strakes would be all the tighter, now that they had been under water for days.
It was trailing by the lee rigging, which had held, and it had thumped and pounded along the ship's side to such an extent during the blow that several of her strakes were nearly punched through.
The two top strakes are single again, and 6 inches thick.
Strakes of plank running internally in a line with the decks, for the purpose of receiving the ends of the beams.
In ship-building the term strictly applies to that part of a vessel's side which is above the chain-wales and decks, as well as to the strakes which shut in between the spirkettings and clamps.
The thickest strakes of wrought stuff in a vessel.
Strakes of thick stuff in the top-sides of three-decked ships, between the middle and upper deck-ports.
Also the principal strakes of plank in a vessel, especially the sheer-strake and wales, which are bolted to the knees and shelf-pieces.
Certain strakes of plank which the beam fastenings pass through.
In ship-building, a term for the scarphed strakes otherwise called clamps.
Strakes worked between the gun-deck and the upper deck ports of large ships.
The three or four thick strakes worked along each side between the lower and middle-deck-ports in three-deckers.
In spring and summer this mud is washed on the canvas strakes or on the ordinary strake, and even the finest black-tin is collected.
However, the mud is never washed with the others, either on the canvas strakes or on the ordinary strake, but separately, and the fine tin-stone which is obtained from it is roasted and smelted separately.
On the canvas strakes are washed the very fine tin-stone mixed with mud which has settled in the lower end of the large buddle, as well as in the lower end of the simple buddle and of the ordinary strake.
Sometimes before the buddles have been filled full, the boys throw the material into a bowl and carry it to the strakes and wash it.
When this mud is collected, it is likewise washed on canvas strakes and on the ordinary strake, in order that the fine tin-stone may be separated from it.
Two strakes are made, each of which is twelve feet long and a foot and a half wide and deep.
The two garboard strakesof the sheathing may have been shaped in cross section to fair the bark cover from the thin sheathing above to the thick keel and at the same time allow the ribs to hold the garboards in place.
Toward the ends of the canoe these strakeswere slightly tapered and the edges were very thin.
The end strakes were, of course, tapered toward the stems.
At the extremities of the canoe, the narrow ends of the strakes were very thin and overlapped along their edges, the bottom sheathing, when in place, thus following the diamond form of the building frame.
Some canoes had four strakes to the length, but three appears to have been most common.
In the middle of the canoe the strakeswere parallel-sided and their butts were on top of those of the strakes in the end of the canoe.
The strakes were laid edge-to-edge longitudinally, with slightly overlapping butts amidships, and were tapered toward the ends of the canoe.
The topside sheathing was laid up in short lengths with overlapping butts and edges in an irregular plan, those strakes along the bilges being longer than above.
The rest of the strakes in the bottom were tapered toward the ends of the canoe.
The placing of thestrakes was often irregular, with the result that the butts were somewhat staggered.
The midship strakes were often quite short and their ends were over the longer end strakes.
The strakes on each side of it were tapered and were laid with their wide ends toward the middle of the canoe and with the sides and narrow end lapped.
The second method of sheathing employed parallel-sided strakes throughout, laid side by side on the bottom, with the ends snied off to fit the form of the bark bottom.
The sheathing of all canoes of this class was of the same form--wide, short strakes amidships, narrower short strakes afore and abaft.
The top strakes are connected to the body of the vessel by short timbers, shown in the section, Fig.
There are sixteen strakes a side, the breadth of each, amidships, being on the average 9-1/2 in.
A heavier lurch than ordinary sent her main channels grinding down on the mackerel boat's gunwale, smashing her upper strakes and springing her mizzen mast as she recovered herself.
But Billy, being quick as well as eager, saw in a moment that the damaged strakes would be to windward on the reach into Mousehole, and well out of harm's way in the wind then blowing, and also that her mainsail alone would do the job easy.
On rafts and spars, the upturned strakes of a lifeboat, remnants of her manning and company grip safeguard, but turn eyes on the wreck of their parent hull.
Little damage was done, however, beyond a few holes through the topstrakes and splinters from the mast and gunwales.
Footnote 15: Strakes were spiked onto the wheel with large square headed nails, as indicated in figure 3, and a brake shoe would have been rapidly torn to pieces by rubbing against them.
The use of strakes also indicates that these early wagons had no brakes such as the large Conestogas of a later era had.
Strakes are sections of wagon tire, equal in number to the felloes of the wheel.
Footnote 13: Strakes are sections of wagon tire, equal in number to the felloes of a wheel.
The upper strakesor sheer strakes and the bilge strakes were always doubled.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "strakes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
