STREAK, n. G., a stroke or stripe. L.
1. A line or long mark, of a different color from the ground a stripe.
What mean those colord streaks in heaven?
2. In a ship, a uniform range of planks on the side or bottom sometimes pronounced strake.
STREAK,
1. To form streaks or stripes in to stripe to variegate with lines of a different color or of different colors.
A mule admirably streaked and dappled with white and black--
Now streakd and glowing with the morning red.
2. To stretch. Not elegant.
STREAK, To run swiftly. Vulgar in New England.
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