streek

[ streek ]

verb (used with object)
  1. to stretch (one's limbs), as on awakening or by exercise.

  2. to extend (one's hand or arm), as in reaching for or offering an object.

  1. to stretch out or prepare (a corpse) for burial.

verb (used without object)
  1. to fall or lie prostrate.

  2. to move quickly, especially to advance.

Origin of streek

1
1200–50; Middle English (north) streken, variant of strecchen to stretch

Other words from streek

  • streeker, noun

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How to use streek in a sentence

  • Mony an honester woman's been set upon it than streeks doon beside ony Whig in the country.

    Waverley | Sir Walter Scott