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

Words Nearby streek

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How to use streek in a sentence

  • I'll show them what it is to streek dead Whigs like honest men, and row them dainty in seventeen hunder linen on my land!

    The Men of the Moss-Hags | S. R. Crockett