Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Streak"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Streak \Streak\, v. t. [Cf. {Stretch}, {Streek}.]
To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Streak \Streak\, n. [OE. streke; akin to D. streek a line,
stroke, G. strich, AS. strica, Sw. strek, Dan. streg, Goth.
stricks, and E. strike, stroke. See {Strike}, {Stroke}, n.,
and cf. {Strake}.]
1. A line or long mark of a different color from the ground;
a stripe; a vein.
What mean those colored streaks in heaven? --Milton.
2. (Shipbuilding) A strake.
3. (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.
4. The rung or round of a ladder. [Obs.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Streak \Streak\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Streaked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Streaking}.]
1. 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. --Sandys.
Now streaked and glowing with the morning red.
--Prior.
2. With it as an object: To run swiftly. [Colloq.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Garboard \Gar"board\, n. (Naut.)
One of the planks next the keel on the outside, which form a
garboard strake.
{Garboard strake} or {streak}, the first range or strake of
planks laid on a ship's bottom next the keel. --Totten.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
streak
n 1: an unbroken series of events: "a succession of failures";
"had a streak of bad luck"; "Nicklaus had a run of
birdies" [syn: {run}]
2: a distinctive characteristic; "he has a stubborn streak"; "a
streak of wildness"
3: a marking of a different color or texture from the
background [syn: {stripe}]
4: a sudden flash (as of lightning)
v 1: move quickly in a straight line; "The plane streaked across
the sky"
2: run naked in a public place
3: mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of
color as if stained [syn: {mottle}, {blotch}]
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