streeting

Verb

street (third-person singular simple present streets, present participle streeting, simple past and past participle streeted)

1. To build or equip with streets.
   • There are few places on this ſide the Alps better built, and ſo well Streeted as this, and none at all ſo well girt with Baſtions and Ramparts, which in ſome places are ſo ſpacious, that they uſually take the Air in Coaches upon the very Walls, which are beautified with divers rows of Trees and...1619 July 14 (Gregorian calendar), James Howell, “XII. To Sir James Crofts. Antwerp.”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume I, London: […] Humphrey...
2. To eject; to throw onto the streets.
   • Stage doormen and all sorts of doormen are very quick at streeting a man who won't move fast. I know a well-known Irishman who at a New York theatre was streeted just because he was insisting on getting in when the house was apparently booked out.1959, The Irish Digest
3. (broadly) To heavily defeat.
   • Wearing his custom-made silks, McCarthy duly rode the horse a treat as they streeted the opposition and helped connections clean up the bookies.2002, John Maynard, Aborigines and the ‘Sport of Kings’: Aboriginal Jockeys in Australian Racing History, Aboriginal Studies Press, published 2013, →ISBN, part II, 96
4. To go on sale.
   • He points to the success of a recent Destiny's Child DVD that streeted just after member Beyonce's new solo CD2003, Billboard, page 55
5. (Japanese, Mormonism) To proselytize in public.
   • A person I met streeting in Osaka told me the above Kanji examples as well as many others that I have since forgot.2000, Dow Glenn Ostlund, The Lost Tribes of Isuraeru: Belief Tales Among Mormon Missionaries in Japan

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