STREAK

noun the rung or round of a ladder.

2. streak ·noun a strake.

3. streak ·vt with it as an object: to run swiftly.

4. streak ·noun a line or long mark of a different color from the ground; a stripe; a vein.

5. streak ·vt to stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body.

6. streak ·vt to form streaks or stripes in or on; to stripe; to variegate with lines of a different color, or of different colors.

7. streak ·noun the fine powder or mark yielded by a mineral when scratched or rubbed against a harder surface, the color of which is sometimes a distinguishing character.