{"id":3585,"date":"2006-06-20T21:42:56","date_gmt":"2006-06-21T04:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2006\/06\/20\/strake.html"},"modified":"2006-06-20T21:42:56","modified_gmt":"2006-06-21T04:42:56","slug":"strake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2006\/06\/20\/strake\/","title":{"rendered":"strake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I think (judging by the MW11 definition) that \"strake\" is the generic term for any strip or band of hull planking (or plating) on a boat or ship.  Hard to be sure, though, from the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Strake\">Wikipedia entry<\/a>, which goes into a great deal of detail about how many different kinds of strakes there are without ever actually saying what a strake is used for or why you would have on one a boat.<\/p>\n<p>(I've posted a note on the discussion page there pointing out that the current phrasing suggests to me that a strake is an extra piece attached to the outside of the hull, rather than a term for a piece of the hull itself; with luck, someone who knows the word will come along and clarify the phrasing.)<\/p>\n<p>I encountered the term in a submitted story.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think (judging by the MW11 definition) that &#8220;strake&#8221; is the generic term for any strip or band of hull planking (or plating) on a boat or ship. Hard to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}