[f. STRAKE sb.1]
† 1. trans. To mark with lines, to streak. Obs.
1537. [cf. STRAKED ppl. a.].
1552. in Archæologia, XLIII. 236. j red hangynge of silke straked withe golde.
1577. B. Googe, Heresbach’s Husb., I. 31. The stalke is … straked [L. strigato] like to the greater Fearne.
1591. Percivall, Sp. Dict., Rayar,… to strake out.
1600. Hakluyt, Voy., III. 392. They … brought … many mantles of cotton straked with blew and white.
1613. Purchas, Pilgrimage (1614), 699. Faire Iacinthes, that are good Iewels, straked like as it were with Naturall veines.
1718. J. Fox, Publ. Spirit, 13. Just when the Morning Goddess … strak’d with infant Light the Eastern Skies.
2. intr. To become streaky.
1911. Masefield, Everlasting Mercy (1912), 56. The peacock screamed, the clouds were straking, My cut cheek felt the weather breaking.
