ringstraked

[ring-streykt]

adjective

Archaic.

1. ring-streaked.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ringstraked¹

1605–15; ring ¹ + strake (in the obsolete sense “stripe of contrasting color”) + -ed ³

Example Sentences

In place of allowing God to multiply "the ringstraked, speckled, and spotted cattle," as he most assuredly would have done, had he been trusted, he sets about securing their multiplication by a piece of policy which could only have found its origin in the mind of a Jacob.

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So He sees Jacob is a sure glutton, and more, a great stockman, projucing an improved strain of ringstraked goats and sheep.

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And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.

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And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks towards the ringstraked and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle.

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Then the Viceroy would cause a ruffle of drums to be sounded, and the ringstraked horse and the cavalry of the State—two men in tatters—and the herald who bore the silver stick before the King, would trot back to their own place, which lay between the tail of a heaven-climbing glacier and a dark birch-forest.

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