Definition of Bestreak

1. v. t. To streak.

Definition of Bestreak

1. Verb. (transitive) To mark or cover with streaks. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bestreak

1. to overspread with streaks [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bestreak

bestowed
bestower
bestowers
bestowest
bestoweth
bestowing
bestowment
bestowments
bestows
bestraddle
bestraddled
bestraddles
bestraddling
bestraught
bestraughted
bestreak (current term)
bestreaks
bestream
bestrew
bestrewed
bestrewing
bestrewn
bestrews
bestrid
bestridden
bestride
bestrides
bestriding
bestrode
bestrow

Literary usage of Bestreak

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Technological dictionary: English-Spanish and Spanish-English of Words and by Néstor Ponce de León (1920)
"m bandas, to »ream. — en bandas ill (»torts (tew.) to bestreak. ... to bestreak — en matices (sew. ..."

2. The Odyssey of Homer by Homer (1828)
"But when the dawn bestreak'd the east, The king from Helen rose, and sought his guest. As soon as his approach the hero knew, The splendid mantle round him ..."

3. Jerusalem Delivered: An Heroic Poem by Torquato Tasso, John Hoole (1797)
"360 Aloft his head and squalid crest he held, bestreak'd with gold ; his neck with anger swell'd ; Fire fill'd his eyes ; he hid the path beneath ..."

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