2. An iron band by which the fellies of a wheel are secured to each other, being not continuous, as the tire is, but made up of separate pieces.
3. (Shipbuilding)
Defn: One breadth of planks or plates forming a continuous range on the bottom or sides of a vessel, reaching from the stem to the stern; a streak.
Note: The planks or plates next the keel are called the garboard strakes; the next, or the heavy strakes at the bilge, are the bilge strakes; the next, from the water line to the lower port sill, the wales; and the upper parts of the sides, the sheer strakes.
4. (Mining)
Defn: A trough for washing broken ore, gravel, or sand; a launder.
STRALE
Strale, n.
Defn: Pupil of the eye. [Prov. Eng.]
STRAM Stram, v. t. Etym: [Cf. LG. strammen to strain, straiten, stretch, D. stram strained, tight, G. stramm.]
Defn: To spring or recoil with violence. [Prov. Eng.]