▪ I. straked, a.
(streɪkt)
[f. strake n.1 + -ed2.]
Of a wheel: Furnished with strakes.
| a 1571 Jewel Serm. (Josh. vi. 1–3) (1583) A vij b, The ægyptians had mightie chariots, straked and barred with yron. 1801 W. Felton Carriages I. 111 There are three descriptions of wheels, viz:—the straked, the hooped, and the patent rim. |
▪ II. straked, ppl. a. Now rare.
Also 7 stracked.
[f. strake v.4 Cf. streaked.]
Streaked, striped.
| 1537 Bible (‘Matthew’) Gen. xxx. 40 And the shepe conceaued before the staues & brought forth straked, spotted and partie. 1585 Higins Junius' Nomenclator 273/2 A straked target. 1597 Gerarde Herbal i. xix. 25 The White Chameleon grasse, or straked grasse. 1664 Beale in Evelyn's Pomona 26 A Red-strak'd Must. Ibid., These and other differences, Straked, Must [1683 Straked-Must], right Red-strake, Red-red-strake, &c. 1688 Holme Armory ii. 183/1 Roed and Stracked like a Leopard. 1727 Bailey vol. II, Straked, having Strakes or Lines. 1939 A. Ransome Secret Water xxix. 343 He could not help smiling..at the memory of the savages ringed, straked and spotted in the war-paint of mud. |