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noun

Streak n.

A line or long mark of a different color from the ground; a stripe; a vein. "What mean those colored streaks in heaven?"

(Shipbuilding) A strake.

(Min.) The fine powder or mark yielded by a mineral when scratched or rubbed against a harder surface, the color of which is sometimes a distinguishing character.

The rung or round of a ladder. (Obs.)

verb

Streak v. t. To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body. (Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.)

Streak v. t. (past & past part. streaked; pres. part. streaking)

To form streaks or stripes in or on; to stripe; to variegate with lines of a different color, or of different colors. "A mule... streaked and dappled with white and black." "Now streaked and glowing with the morning red."

With it as an object: To run swiftly. (Colloq.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Streak" Quotes from Famous Books

... the willows along the wide, level river bottom seemed an unnatural growth, for they made a streak of yellow-green across the mountain-desert when all other verdure withered and died. After nightfall they became still more dreary. Even when the air was calm there was apt to be a sound as of wind, for the tenuous, ...

— The Untamed • Max Brand

... to get home, and whose temperament was little suited for the endurance of such agonies of Tantalus. He became the very embodiment of restlessness. A hundred times a-day he went aloft to look out for some prospect of a change, and to strain his eyes after the streak of land to the north which was to be made out on clear days from the maintop-gallant mast-head, and which of course would be the coast of Norway. The dress, the silk handkerchiefs, the rings, and what he should say to Elizabeth—whether ...

— The Pilot and his Wife • Jonas Lie

... of Glenfernie shaded his eyes and looked at the fire. Mrs. Jardine, working upon the gold streak in a tulip, held her needle suspended and sat for a moment with unseeing gaze, then resumed the bright wreath. The tutor began to think again of Mother Binning, and, following this, of the stepping-stones at White Farm, and Elspeth ...

— Foes • Mary Johnston

... bounds the monster had become a great grey streak that crackled and rustled in the shadows of the trees. And then it had vanished, become invisible and inaudible with ...

— The Research Magnificent • H. G. Wells

... the morning the storm seemed to lull a little. My companion crept out from underneath the cart; I followed. The plug, who had managed to improve the occasion by stuffing himself with grass, was soon in the shafts again, and just as dawn began to streak the dense low-lying clouds towards the east we were once more in motion. Still for a couple of hours more the rain came down in drenching torrents and the lightning flashed with angry fury over the long corn-like grass beaten flat by the ...

— The Great Lone Land - A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America • W. F. Butler

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