(n.) The endmost plank of a strake which stops short of the stem or stern.
Example Sentences:
(1) Compared with stealers, aggressive children tended to be younger and more immature males, and to come from stressed families with a history of mental illness.
(2) The settling for the sentences was one that an American producer would have built for a film about a British trial: a courtroom built in the days when sheep stealers were hanged outside, 200 years ago.
(3) "Most people my age either know nothing about her, or only know she was a milk stealer and won the Falklands war, but still don't have any opinion.
(4) It is also true that the speech wasn't designed to be a scene-stealer.
(5) Kids will enjoy Oregon Zoo and Children’s Museum, but the scene-stealers are the Japanese Garden and the International Rose Test Garden.
(6) Photograph: Misha Janette Harcoza serves up fashion quirks with an eclectic selection of accessories like necklaces made from melted rubber balls and bonsai trees fashioned into watches, but the show-stealer is the interior – featuring a floor-to-ceiling bouncy-ball dispenser, a ceramic purple poodle guarding the stairs, and carpet patterned like Lego blocks.
(7) So long, ladies!” declares the scheming man-stealer Crystal Allen (Joan Crawford) in one of the film’s many venomous put-downs.
(8) In his latest blog post, Sanad reiterated his refusal to engage with the military's legal "theatrics", saying: "I don't beg for my freedom from a group of killers and homeland-stealers."
(9) David Cameron’s early social-justice, hoodie-hugging , greenest-ever, socially liberal scene-stealers clung to him, even as he led the country into a dark tunnel of extreme austerity.
(10) 3.08am BST Tigers 0 - Red Sox 1, bottom of the 5th No momentum here, Avila throws out Jacoby, one of the most efficient base stealers in the league, trying to get to second.
(11) Despite coming from a long line of pillaging sheep stealers, I've never actually nicked something from a supermarket self-service checkout.
Strake
Definition:
() imp. of Strike.
(n.) A streak.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A trough for washing broken ore, gravel, or sand; a launder.
Example Sentences:
(1) The program is able to calculate ventricular indexes (strake volume, ejection fraction, circumferential velocity of fiber shortening), continuous functions (istantaneous ventricular diameter and volume, wall thickness, velocity of cavity compression and dilation) and, correlating the echo data with pressure values, circumferential stresss and ventricular compliance.