STREAK, noun [G., a stroke or stripe. Latin ] 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, verb transitive 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, verb intransitive To run swiftly. [Vulgar in New England.]
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