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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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STRAKE, pret. of strike. [See Strike.]
STRAKE, n.
Spenser. A streak.
[Obs.] Spenser."White
strake." Gen. xxx. 37. 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.
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.
* 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. A trough for washing broken
ore, gravel, or sand; a launder.
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