Forms: 4 strecour, 6 strekour, 9 streaker. [ME. (Sc.) strecour, prob. a. AF. *stracour (stracur, strakur, quot. 1287): cf. OF. estrac track.]
1. A kind of swift hound for the chase. north.
[1287. in G. J. Turner, Sel. Pleas Forest (1901), 149. Cum uno stracur nigro. Ibid. Cum duobus leporariis … et cum uno strakur griseo.]
1375. Barbour, Bruce, VI. 487. A sleuthhund had he thar alsua…; And sum men sais ȝeit that the kyng As a strecour hym nwrist had.
1840. Colquhoun, Moor & Loch, 44. If the foxes escape the guns, as they commonly do, ‘the streakers’ are slipped upon them. Footnote. A breed between the largest size of greyhound and foxhound.
† 2. Sc. A term of abuse for a person. Obs.
1500–20. Dunbar, Poems, lx. 17. Stuffettis, strekouris, and stafische strummellis.
† 3. ? A beaker, goblet. Obs. rare–1.
Prob. a different word, or misprint for Beaker.
1694. Motteux, Rabelais, IV. xv. 63. A swindging Streaker of Briton Wine.
