strake vs washboard

strake

noun
  • A trough for washing broken ore, gravel, or sand; a launder. 

  • A shaped piece of wood used to level a bed or contour the shape of a mould, as for a bell 

  • A continuous line of plates or planks running from bow to stern that contributes to a vessel's skin. (FM 55-501). 

  • A type of aerodynamic surface mounted on an aircraft fuselage to fine-tune the airflow. 

washboard

noun
  • A board with a corrugated surface against which laundry may be rubbed. 

  • A stretch of ripples or bumps on a dirt or gravel road caused by interaction between traffic and road surface. 

  • A board fastened along a ship's gunwale to prevent splashing; a splashboard. 

  • Such a board used as a simple percussion instrument. 

verb
  • To play a washboard. 

  • To move up and down or back and forth across the surface of a hive, possibly to lay down a layer of propolis and wax. 

  • To produce a rippled texture on a surface. 

How often have the words strake and washboard occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )