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Answer for the clue "Small streak ", 5 letters:
fleck

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "a mark on skin, a freckle," of uncertain origin; perhaps from fleck (v.) or else from a related word elsewhere in Germanic, such as Middle Dutch vlecke or Old Norse flekkr "a fleck, spot." From 1750 as "small particle," 1804 as "a patch, a spot" ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A flake 2 A lock, as of wool. 3 A small spot or streak; a speckle. vb. (context transitive English) To mark with small spots

Usage examples of fleck.

Now, with the swift coming of the jungle dawn, the plain had been transformed into a rippling sea of emerald, of malachite, alexandrite, and amazon-stone green, richly flecked with topaz and amethyst.

The set of the mouth defines the face, as if glimpsed in a bendy old mirror and catching a fault along the parting line yes, and with a swirl of dust and flecking on the glass.

First, someone would from time to time dip a ladle into the top of the bubbler and scoop out portions of the water, and along with it, flecks and flakes of cold fire that swirled through it like sparks above a campfire.

But when Kylla broke into a gallop over a meadow flecked with white hearthwhistle and golden violets, and Ran laughed and went after her, Eln put out his hand to the front of my floater.

Star begged Giles Habibula to nurse more thrust from the over-loaded geodynes, and he watched the faint red fleck on the screen.

Qwilleran merely sampled the corn chowder, ate half of his portion of roast beef and broccoli parmigiana, declined a Parker House roll, and ignored a glob of mush flecked with green.

It blessed every nail and board from prow to stern, every grommet, every oar, every pivot, every fleck of paint, every inch of rope.

Painfully, agonizingly, he was moving little flecks of sharkskin pepper and kunai seed about on the table, moving them with mental anguish but not touching them except with his mind.

Blood flecked Kutch and the stranger huddled behind him, proving their protective shield useless.

Not a strand of silvery-blond hair was out of place, not a fleck of mascara marred the pale flesh beneath her eyes.

The doorway held a tangle of colored paths, but a small pool of bright yellow orange sparkling with gold flecks was obviously Mitchella Clover.

The little moonlet was rising over the notch, a swiftly moving fleck of light.

He moved forward, stood out on the edge of a large rock, peered down into thick brush, saw more birds now, small flecks of color.

She went into a paroxysm of coughing, spewing out pieces of paan and juice and assorted flecks and bits of various things.

She could not escape the inference that Sodan was displeased with her strength, yet a tinge of relief coloured that fleck of thought.