Naut. Also -streak. [? f. WASH sb.] = WASHBOARD 1.
1809. Naval Chron., XXI. 299. Exclusive of a moveable wash strake.
1834. M. Scott, Cruise Midge, iii. A large Eboe canoe,… the bottom hollowed out of one single tree, but there was a washstreak of some kind of hardwood plank, so as to raise the gunwale about a foot above the ledge of the original vessel.
