streek

Verb

streek (third-person singular simple present streeks, present participle streeking, simple past and past participle streeked)

1. (Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal, transitive) To stretch.
   • Hae, there's a key, gang in your way
     At the neist door there's braw ait strae;
     Streek down upon't, my lad and learn
     They're no ill lodg'd that get a barn."1802, anonymous author, Four Funny Tales, The Monk and the Miller's Wife
2. (Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal, transitive) To lay down, as a dead body.
   • Ye'll make a grave for my fair body,"
     Running rain in the mill-water;
     "And ye'll streek my brother at the side of me,"
     The pains of hell for the king's daughter.1866, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Poems and Ballads, The King's Daughter