Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having circular streaks or lines on the body. Also ringstraked.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having circular streaks or lines on the body.

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Examples

  • So now, said Frazer, he was going for Polk—“the bosom friend of Old Hickory … the man who stood up in defence of the old hero during the panic session … the man who fought so bravely and so undauntingly the whigs of Tennessee—the pure, whole hog, locofoco democrat, who goes against … the ring-streaked and speckled whig party, with all its odious, abominable measures.”

    A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

  • So now, said Frazer, he was going for Polk—“the bosom friend of Old Hickory … the man who stood up in defence of the old hero during the panic session … the man who fought so bravely and so undauntingly the whigs of Tennessee—the pure, whole hog, locofoco democrat, who goes against … the ring-streaked and speckled whig party, with all its odious, abominable measures.”

    A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

  • And he removed that day the he goats that were ring-streaked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.

    Genesis 30. 1999

  • And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ring-streaked, speckled, and spotted.

    Genesis 30. 1999

  • If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ring-streaked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ring-streaked.

    Genesis 31. 1999

  • And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ring-streaked, speckled, and grizzled.

    Genesis 31. 1999

  • And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ring-streaked, 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.

    Genesis 30. 1999

  • And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ring-streaked, speckled, and grizzled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.

    Genesis 31. 1999

  • For a little further on we find that Jacob wasn't as shrewd about getting married as he was about breeding cattle that were ring-streaked and grizzled, and so Laban, with the cunning of a modern politician, palmed off his daughter Leah on Jacob as a bride.

    Fair to Look Upon Mary Belle Freeley

  • The ring-streaked, spotted, and speckled among the cattle and goats, and the brown among the sheep, were turned into the supplanters 'folds, which were filled with lowing herds and bleating flocks, while Laban had neither horn nor hoof.

    Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War Richard Taylor

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