Streak \Streak\, v. t. [Cf. Stretch, Streek.]

To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Streak \Streak\, n. [OE. streke; akin to D. streek a line, stroke, G. strich, AS. strica, Sw. strek, Dan. streg, Goth. stricks, and E. strike, stroke. See Strike, Stroke, n., and cf. Strake.]

1. A line or long mark of a different color from the ground; a stripe; a vein.

What mean those colored streaks in heaven? --Milton.

2. (Shipbuilding) A strake.

3. (Min.) The fine powder or mark yielded by a mineral when scratched or rubbed against a harder surface, the color of which is sometimes a distinguishing character.

4. The rung or round of a ladder. [Obs.]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Streak \Streak\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Streaked; p. pr. & vb. n. Streaking.]

1. To form streaks or stripes in or on; to stripe; to variegate with lines of a different color, or of different colors.

A mule . . . streaked and dappled with white and black. --Sandys.

Now streaked and glowing with the morning red. --Prior.

2. With it as an object: To run swiftly. [Colloq.]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Garboard \Gar"board\, n. (Naut.) One of the planks next the keel on the outside, which form a garboard strake.

Garboard strake or streak, the first range or strake of planks laid on a ship's bottom next the keel. --Totten.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)