streek

present singular third person streeks · participle present streeking · participle past streeked · past streeked

1. ScotlandUKarchaicdialectaltransitiveTo 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. ScotlandUKarchaicdialectaltransitiveTo 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