What is "strakes"

Usage examples of "strakes".

They looked old and weather-beaten, but were strongly timbered, and three of them were planked with oak which Webber recognized as the strakes of a shipwrecked vessel.

The posts over there, where Carlono and your brother are, are for the guy lines to hold the strakes in place while they are sewn on.

The planks were fastened together like the strakes on the sides of the boats, with the slightly thicker edge overlapping the thinner edge and sewn together.

More Frenchmen were coming, clawing at the ramp, fighting past the smashed gun carriage, over the broken barrel strakes, and across the bodies of their own wounded.

The strakes could be replaced whenever the harsh gravel beach had worn them down.