wash-strake Naut.
Also -streak.
[? f. wash n.]
= washboard 1.
| 1809 Naval Chron. XXI. 299 Exclusive of a moveable wash strake. 1834 M. Scott Cruise Midge iii, A large Eboe canoe,..the bottom hollowed out of one single tree, but there was a washstreak of some kind of hardwood plank, so as to raise the gunwale about a foot above the ledge of the original vessel. |