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 or cover with streaks.

Etymologies

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From be- +‎ streak.

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  • ...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