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straking

straking is the present participle and gerund of strake.

Meaning of strake

Verb

strake (third-person singular simple present strakes, present participle straking, simple past and past participle straked)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To stretch.

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Questions about straking

What is straking the present participle and gerund of?
Straking is the present participle and gerund of strake.

Words near straking in the dictionary

  1. straked
  2. Straker
  3. Strakers
  4. strakes
  5. strakhovite
  6. straking
  7. strale
  8. strales
  9. Straley
  10. Straleys
  11. Stralia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: straking (page history and authors); strake (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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