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to streak it
is to run as fast as possible. O'er hill and dale with fury she did dreel, A' roads to her were go...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
is to run as fast as possible.
O'er hill and dale with fury she did dreel,
A' roads to her were good and bad alike;
Nane o't she wyl'd, but forward on did streak.--Ross's Helenore.
I was certain it wasn't no fox or wolf, but a dog; and if I didn't streak off like greased lightnin'.--Carlton, The New Purchase, Vol. I. p. 8.
I streaked it for Washington, and it was well nigh upon midnight when I reached the White House.--Maj. Downing's Letters, p. 91.
When I did get near, he'd stop and look, cock his ears, and give snuff, as if he'd never seen a man afore, and then streak it off as if I had been an Indian.--Porter's Tales of the South-west, p. 165.
is to run as fast as possible. O'er hill and dale with fury she did dreel, A' roads to her were go...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.