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Ship's planking
Answer for the clue "Ship's planking ", 6 letters:
strake
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Word definitions for strake in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Strake \Strake\, obs. imp. of Strike . --Spenser.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Strake may refer to: Strake (nautical), a strip of planking or plating on a ship's hull. Strake (aeronautics) , an element on a fuselage of an aircraft for controlling air flow Grouser , a traction-improving pattern on the surface of a wheel or track Screed ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. thick plank forming a ridge along the side of a wooden ship [syn: wale ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context obsolete English) An iron fitting of a medieval cart wheel. 2 (context aviation English) A type of aerodynamic surface mounted on an aircraft fuselage to fine-tune the airflow. 3 (context nautical archaic English) A continuous ...
Usage examples of strake.
She had never recognized that the Straken Lord had any interest in her beyond keeping her imprisoned and alive until its creature, the Moric, could do whatever it had been sent to do in her own world.
But the cunning and deception of the Straken Lord had deceived them all, and so for the first time in centuries, a demon was free.
She was inside the Forbidding because the Straken Lord had arranged for a handful of Druids who hated her to be swayed into using magic that would put her here.
The pain and humiliation she had been forced to suffer at the hands of the Straken Lord had shattered her confidence.
The Straken Lord had brought her into the Forbidding, and it knew who she was.
If so, then the Straken Lord had a vested interest in protecting her until its ally was ready to return.
It was also possible that the Straken Lord would be alerted to the fact that she had tampered with it.
She was back in the room in which the Straken Lord had confronted her.
She could either take the stairs the Straken Lord had climbed or retrace her steps into the cells.
They were creatures of the Straken Lord, after all, and it had trained them to do its bidding.
All that remained for her was to prepare herself for whatever fate the Straken Lord intended.
Other than the purpose she had already served in switching places with whatever creature the magic had set free from the Forbidding, what reason could the Straken Lord have for taking an interest in her?
She sat quietly on the floor of her little room and thought about what the Straken Lord had told her.
In the center of a group of unidentifiable creatures hidden within robes and hoods sat the Straken Lord.
She did as she was told, rising gingerly to exit the cage and stand on the floor of the arena, facing the Straken Lord.