a. Of or pertaining to Astrakhan in Russia or its products; made of an Astrakhan skin. -- n. The skin of stillborn or young lambs of that region, the curled wool of which resembles fur. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Made with boards whose edges lap one over another; clinker-built; -- said of boats. Contrasted with carvel-built.
Syn. -- lap-jointed, overlapping. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Ring-streaked. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted. Gen. xxx. 39. [ 1913 Webster ]

obs. imp. of Strike. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Streak. ] 1. A streak. [ Obs. ] Spenser.“White strake.” Gen. xxx. 37. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Shipbuilding) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mining) A trough for washing broken ore, gravel, or sand; a launder. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; four times + E. hexahedron. ] (Crystallog.) A tetrahexahedron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Tetra- + Gr. &unr_; twenty. ] (Chem.) A hydrocarbon, C24H50, resembling paraffin, and like it belonging to the marsh-gas series; -- so called from having twenty-four atoms of carbon in the molecule. [ 1913 Webster ]