different between strake vs berthing

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?e?k/

Etymology 1

The verb is akin to Old English streccan.

Noun

strake (plural strakes)

1. (obsolete) An iron fitting of a medieval cart wheel.

   Synonyms: box, bushel

2. (aviation) A type of aerodynamic surface mounted on an aircraft fuselage to fine-tune the airflow.
3. (nautical) A continuous line of plates or planks running from bow to stern that contributes to a vessel's skin. (FM 55-501).
4. (engineering) A shaped piece of wood used to level a bed or contour the shape of a mould, as for a bell
5. A trough for washing broken ore, gravel, or sand; a launder.
6. (obsolete) 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.

Usage notes

• (nautical): The planks or plates next to the keel are called the garboard strakes; the next, or the heavy strakes at the bilge, are the bilge strakes; the next, from the water line to the lower portsills, the wales; and the upper parts of the sides, the sheer strakes.

Translations

Verb

strake (third-person singular simple present strakes, present participle straking, simple past and past participle straked)

1. (obsolete) To stretch.

Etymology 2

Verb

strake

1. (obsolete) simple past tense of strike
   • But, when he strake — which came so thick as if every blow would strive to be foremost — his arm seemed still a postillion of death.

   • c. 1590-1599', Arthur Gorges, Eglantine of Meryfleur

     But when of Eglantine he spake, / His strings melodiously he strake.

Anagrams

• Akters, Kaster, Krastë, Skater, Staker, Starke, Tasker, retask, sakret, skater, staker, streak, takers, tasker, trakes

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English *str?c.

Noun

strake

1. Alternative form of stroke

Etymology 2

From Old English str?cian.

Verb

strake

1. Alternative form of stroken

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

strake

1. definite singular of strak
2. plural of strak

Slovak

Noun

strake f

1. dative/locative singular of straka

English

Verb

berthing

1. present participle of berth

Noun

berthing (plural berthings)

1. (obsolete, nautical) The planking outside of a vessel, above the sheer strake.
2. (nautical) An instance of a ship being brought to rest at some docking facility.
3. A berth, especially figuratively, a place to sleep.

Translations

Anagrams

• brighten, bringeth