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-pot and fathom-pieces; the lowest of these, which is called the garboard freee, is let into the keel below, and into the stem and stern-pot. They say also a ship heels a strake, that is, hangs or inclines to one side the quantity of a whole plank's breadth.

or Straks, in mining, are frames of boards fixed on or in the ground, where they wash and dress the small ore in a little stream of water, hence called streaked ore.