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Perroquet :: Perroquet (n.) See Paroquet, Parakeet..

Rakery :: Rakery (n.) Debauchery; lewdness.

Keelrake :: Keelrake (v. t.) Same as Keelhaul.

Drake :: Drake (n.) The drake fly.

Brake :: Brake (v. t.) A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him; also, an inclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc..

String :: String (n.) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it..

Garboard :: Garboard (n.) One of the planks next the keel on the outside, which form a garboard strake..

Crowberry :: Crowberry (n.) A heathlike plant of the genus Empetrum, and its fruit, a black, scarcely edible berry; -- also called crakeberry..

Firedrake :: Firedrake (n.) A fiery dragon.

Skirlcrake :: Skirlcrake (n.) The turnstone.

Land :: Land (n.) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; -- called also landing.

Sheldrake :: Sheldrake (n.) Any one of several species of large Old World ducks of the genus Tadorna and allied genera, especially the European and Asiatic species. (T. cornuta, / tadorna), which somewhat resembles a goose in form and habit, but breeds in burrows..

Strake :: Strake (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..

Rake :: Rake (n.) A toothed machine drawn by a horse, -- used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake..

Rake :: Rake (n.) The inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction; as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc..

Water Crake :: Water crake () The dipper.

Wale :: Wale (n.) Certain sets or strakes of the outside planking of a vessel; as, the main wales, or the strakes of planking under the port sills of the gun deck; channel wales, or those along the spar deck, etc..

Berthing :: Berthing (n.) The planking outside of a vessel, above the sheer strake..

Rake :: Rake (v. i.) To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.

Involucre :: Involucre (n.) A continuous marginal covering of sporangia, in certain ferns, as in the common brake, or the cup-shaped processes of the filmy ferns..

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