Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To mark or cover with streaks.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To streak.
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- verb transitive To
mark orcover withstreaks .
Etymologies
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From be- + streak.
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yarb commented on the word bestreak
...it is of an exceedingly rich, mottled tint, with a bestreaked snowy and golden ground, dotted with spots of the deepest crimson and purple.
- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 94
July 29, 2008