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Entry 3 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Fleck

/flĕk/ · IPA /flɛk/
01 n. A flake; also, a lock, as of wool.
  1. 1.
    A flake; also, a lock, as of wool.[Obs.]
02 n. A spot; a streak; a speckle.
  1. 1.
    A spot; a streak; a speckle.
    “Life is dashed with flecks of sin.” — tennyson.
03 v. t. To spot; to streak or stripe; to variegate; to dapple.
imp. & p. p. Flecked; p. pr. & vb. n. Flecking
  1. 1.
    To spot; to streak or stripe; to variegate; to dapple.
    “Both flecked with white, the true Arcadian strain.” — Dryden.
    “A bird, a cloud, flecking the sunny air.” — Trench.