Streak /(?)/

1. To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

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. A strake. (Shipbuilding)
3. 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. (Min.)
4. The rung or round of a ladder. [Obs.]

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.

   Now streaked and glowing with the morning red.

2. With it as an object: To run swiftly. [Colloq.]