Streak
Streak , transitive verb
To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body. [Obsolete or Provincial English & Scottish]
Streak , noun
[Old English streke; akin to Dutch streek a line, stroke, German strich, Anglo-Saxon strica, Swedish strek, Danish streg, Gothic stricks, and English strike, stroke. See Strike, Stroke, n., and compare 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?
2.
(Shipbuilding) A strake.
3.
(Mineralogy) 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. [Obsolete]
Streak , transitive verb
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.
Now streaked and glowing with the morning red.
2.
With it as an object: To run swiftly. [Colloquial]