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ring-straked, a.|ˈrɪŋstreɪkt|
Also 9 -streaked.
[f. ring n.1]
Having bands of colour round the body. Also transf. and fig.
Quot. 1611 appears to be the source from which all later usage is derived.
1611Bible Gen. xxx. 35 He remoued that day the hee goates that were ring-straked, and spotted. 1650Bulwer Anthropomet. 253 The same way that Jacobs Cattle became speckled, spotted and ring-straked. 1791Cowper Iliad xii. 210 As wasps ring-straked, or bees that build. 1861Lowell Biglow P. Ser. ii. Poems (1884) 293/1 A spotteder, ring-streakeder child the' warn't in Uncle Sam's holl farm. a1865in R. Hunt Rom. West Eng. (1871) 393 All ‘this wilful waste’ of long cloth scarlet, ringstraked, and speckled, is to do honour to King Christmas. 1891T. Hardy Tess (1900) 49/1 Commanding like a monarch his flocks and his herds, his spotted and his ring-straked. |