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strake - use in sentences
Converse of object
- rub: Others used the rubbing strakes on the outside of the hull to climb up.
- call: The plates, put on in rows from bow to stern, are called strakes.
- show: After preparation for NDT shows the boiler barrel strakes to between 14 and 15 mm thick with good overall condition both internally and externally.
- have: Structures may be cantilevered or between end fixings, may be vertical, horizontal or inclined, and may or may not have strakes.
Adjective modifier
- upper: The floor folds flat to spread the lower ribs whilst the upper strakes are kept tight to the struts.
- top: The weakest part of the ship was the upper part i.e the top strakes.
- sheer: The upper edge of the sheer strake is the gunwale.
- directional: It tracks well due to the unique directional strakes.
- adjacent: The seams had their flat faces beveled to match the decreasing angle made by adjacent strakes.
- bottom: In narrowboat work it was used to fasten the bottoms to the bottom strakes.
Preposition: on
- side: The bottom row of strakes on either side of the keel, are called garboard strakes.
Noun used with modifier
- garboard: The bottom row of strakes on either side of the keel, are called garboard strakes.
- rubbing: The original PVC topsides ' skirt ' was refitted, with a new rubbing strake.
- hull: There are, for example, the optional detail parts for the lifeboat davits and the optional outer hull strakes.
- side: Eleven of these rest in notches cut into the upper side strakes and lower gunwale edges.
- bilge: Port side, possible bilge strakes, under which the ruler was found.
- ceiling: A thick coating of pitch was applied to the interior before ceiling strakes and keelson were installed.
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