ringstraked

[ ring-streykt ]

adjective

, Archaic.

1. ring-streaked.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ringstraked¹

1605–15; ring ¹ + strake (in the obsolete sense “stripe of contrasting color”) + -ed ³

Example Sentences

In place of allowing God to multiply "the ringstraked, speckled, and spotted cattle," as he most assuredly would have done, had he been trusted, he sets about securing their multiplication by a piece of policy which could only have found its origin in the mind of a Jacob.

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So He sees Jacob is a sure glutton, and more, a great stockman, projucing an improved strain of ringstraked goats and sheep.

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And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.

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And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks towards the ringstraked and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle.

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Now and again this King, whose name does not matter, would mount a ringstraked horse and ride scores of miles to Simla-town to confer with the Lieutenant-Governor on matters of state, or to assure the Viceroy that his sword was at the service of the Queen-Empress.

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