Streak

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The rung or round of a ladder.

II. Streak ·noun A Strake.

III. Streak ·vt With it as an object: To run swiftly.

IV. Streak ·noun A line or long mark of a different color from the ground; a stripe; a vein.

V. Streak ·vt To Stretch; to Extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body.

VI. Streak ·vt To form streaks or stripes in or on; to Stripe; to variegate with lines of a different color, or of different colors.

VII. Streak ·noun 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.

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