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▪ I. ˈstreeking, vbl. n.
[f. streek v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of stretching or extending.
a1340Hampole Psalter xxi. 17 The strekynge of his body in the tre myght noght haf ben bettere dyscryed. c1440Promp. Parv. 479/1 Streykynge [MS. K. strekyng], or spredynge owute,..extencio, protencio. 1586Bright Melanch. xxvi. 150 In streaking the muscles are contracted. 1608Bp. Hall Charac. Vertues & Vices ii. 120 After some streaking and yawning [he] calles for dinner. 1828Carr Craven Gloss., Streaking, stretching.
b. spec. The laying out a corpse. Also attrib.
1777Brand Pop. Antiq. 23 The Ceremonies used..in what we call laying out or streeking in the North. Ibid. note, A Streeking-Board is that on which they stretch out and compose the Limbs of the dead Body. 1815Scott Guy M. xxvii, He's a bonny corpse,..and weel worth the streaking. 1896Barrie Sentim. Tommy xxvii. 317 ‘Do you know what straiking is?’ ‘Arraying the corpse for the coffin, laying it out, in short, is it not?’ ‘Ay, ay.’
2. The action of setting (a plough or other implement) to work. streeking-time, ploughing-time.
c1480Henryson Fables, Fox, Wolf & Husbandman 4 Swa happynnit him in streiking tyme of ȝeir Airlie in the morning to follow furth his feir, Vnto the pleuch. 1555Charters etc. Peebles (1872) 218 At the streking of the plewis yerelie, betwix Sanct Lucas day and Mertymes, and at harrowis streking. 1678Sir G. Mackenzie Crim. Laws Scot. i. xxxi. §iv. (1699) 157 The season of labouring,..from the time of streiking, to upseed time.
▪ II. ˈstreeking, ppl. a.
[f. streek v. + -ing2.]
That extends; that is stretched out.
c1425Wyntoun Cron. ii. 432 Ryngis fyrst he gert men were, Þa he gert on mydfynger ber, For fra þat to þe hart, he saide, Ane ewyn strekande wayne was laide. 1572Gascoigne Hund. Flowres, Gascoignes good nyghte 23 The streking [1575 stretching] arms, the yauning breath, which I to bedward vse. 1577Grange Golden Aphrod. I ij b, Then is it no masterie for me (Lady) with streaking armes to swimme in a sea of honny. 1600Holland Livy iv. xix. 152 He ouerthrew him backward with the bosse of his target, and laid him streaking along. |
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