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Definition of Streek
1. v. t. To stretch; also, to lay out, as a dead body. See Streak.
Definition of Streek
1. to stretch [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: stretch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Streek
Literary usage of Streek
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings edited by John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins (1887)
"streek, JURIAAN VAN, born at Amsterdam in 1632 (?), died there, June 12, 1678.
Dutch school ; portrait and still-life painter, about whose life no ..."
2. Dutch Conversation-grammar by T. G. G. Valette (1913)
"... van streek zijn [ran strek zein]: watchmaker deze man is van streek is un-
mooi [moi] fine well, is geheel van streek quite geestig ..."
3. The Natural History of the Mineral Kingdom: Relative to the Strata of Coal by John Williams, James Millar (1810)
"I observed above, that the species of pipe which approaches in affinity to the
streek, lies between the strata, and consequently it has the same declivity ..."
4. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1887)
"V. STREIK, streek. 2. A streak, line, trace; as, ... To STRAIT THE PIN, streek
THE PIN. To tighten the temper-pin of a spinning- wheel, keep it at the right ..."
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