STRAKES, or STREAKS, in a ship, the uniform ranges of planks on the bottom and sides of a ship, or the continuation of planks joined to the ends of each other.
other, and reaching from the stem to the stern-post and fashion-pieces; the lowest of these, which is called the garboard-streak, is let into the keel below, and into the stem and stern-post. They say also a ship keels a streak, that is, hangs or inclines to one side the quantity of a whole plank's breadth.