Definition of "fleck"

fleck

/flɛk/

noun
plural flecks
1. A flake.
  Quotations
  two flecks of Lard cut with your knife
  1675, William Rabisha, The Whole Body of Cookery Dissected, Taught and Fully
2. A lock, as of wool.
  Quotations
  With teeth they smooth their work, as on it slips, And flecks of wool stick to their wither'd lips
  1861, Theodore Martin, The poems of Catullus, translated into English verse
  A single fleck of wool from his sock got caught on a splintery floorboard and that was enough to convict him.
  2015, Graham Masterson, Eye for an Eye: A Katie Maguire Short Story
3. A small spot or streak; a speckle.
  Quotations
  So fret not, like an idle girl, / That life is dash'd with flecks of sin. / Abide: thy wealth is gathered in, / When Time hath sunder'd shell from pearl.
  1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], Canto LI, page 74
4. A small amount.
verb
third-person singular simple present flecks, present participle flecking, simple past and past participle flecked
1. (transitive) To mark (something) with small spots.
  Quotations
  So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
  1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company