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streeked

streeked is the simple past and past participle of streek.

Meaning of 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

Questions about streeked

What is streeked the simple past and past participle of?
Streeked is the simple past and past participle of streek.

Words near streeked in the dictionary

  1. Streckers
  2. Stredwick
  3. streedhan
  4. streedhana
  5. streek
  6. streeked
  7. streeker
  8. streekers
  9. streeking
  10. streeks
  11. streel

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