, 1866, The separate pieces of iron, forming together the fitting of the wheel, are called strakes, and the great nails by which they are fastened to the woodwork, and which had thick projecting heads, are called strake-nails and occasionally, it seems, cart-nails, great nails, or frets. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 1, p. 544.
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