From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Streak \Streak\, verb (used with an object) [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.]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
32 Moby Thesaurus words for "streaking": band, bar, belt, crack, craze, cross-hatching, dash, delineation, diagonal, dotted line, hachure, hairline, lineation, list, score, slash, streak, stria, striation, striature, striga, striola, strip, stripe, striping, stroke, sublineation, underline, underlining, underscore, underscoring, virgule
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