verb
- to make smooth, glossy, or sleek
Usage: archaic or dialectal
Examples
- The old groomer would sleeken the horse’s coat with careful brushing.
- She tried to sleeken her hair with pomade before the formal dinner.
- The craftsman worked to sleeken the wooden surface until it gleamed.
- Rain began to sleeken the dusty roads of the village.
- He used oil to sleeken the leather until it shone.