streek
Americanverb (used with object)
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to stretch (one's limbs), as on awakening or by exercise.
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to extend (one's hand or arm), as in reaching for or offering an object.
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to stretch out or prepare (a corpse) for burial.
verb (used without object)
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to fall or lie prostrate.
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to move quickly, especially to advance.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of streek
1200–50; Middle English (north) streken, variant of strecchen to stretch
Example Sentences
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May Colven, where have you been?What has become of false Sir John,That woo’d you so late the streen?
From A Collection of Ballads by Lang, Andrew
‘Sing on, sing on, my bonny bird, The song ye sang the streen, For I ken by your sweet singin’, You ’re frae my true-love sen’.’
From Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series by Sidgwick, Frank
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