Word Finder - strakes

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An iron fitting of a medieval cart wheel.

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• box
• bushel

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A type of aerodynamic surface mounted on an aircraft fuselage to fine-tune the airflow.

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A continuous line of plates or planks running from bow to stern that contributes to a vessel's skin. (FM 55-501).

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A shaped piece of wood used to level a bed or contour the shape of a mould, as for a bell

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A trough for washing broken ore, gravel, or sand; a launder.

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A streak.

Others used the rubbing strakes on the outside of the hull to climb up.

After preparation for NDT shows the boiler barrel strakes to between 14 and 15 mm thick with good overall condition both internally and externally.

Structures may be cantilevered or between end fixings, may be vertical, horizontal or inclined, and may or may not have strakes.

The floor folds flat to spread the lower ribs whilst the upper strakes are kept tight to the struts.

The weakest part of the ship was the upper part i.e the top strakes.

It tracks well due to the unique directional strakes.

The seams had their flat faces beveled to match the decreasing angle made by adjacent strakes.

In narrowboat work it was used to fasten the bottoms to the bottom strakes.

The bottom row of strakes on either side of the keel, are called garboard strakes on either side of the keel, are called garboard strakes.

The bottom row of strakes on either side of the keel, are called garboard strakes.

There are, for example, the optional detail parts for the lifeboat davits and the optional outer hull strakes.

Eleven of these rest in notches cut into the upper side strakes and lower gunwale edges.

Port side, possible bilge strakes, under which the ruler was found.

A thick coating of pitch was applied to the interior before ceiling strakes and keelson were installed.

The plates, put on in rows from bow to stern, are called strakes.