raxed English
Verb
(head)
(rax)
rax English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) raxen, .
Verb
( es)
(UK, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, transitive) To stretch; stretch out.
* 1974 , Guy Davenport, Tatlin! :
- Shoeless, he stood naked on his toes, his arms raxed upwards.
(UK, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, transitive) To reach out; reach or attain to.
(UK, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, transitive) To extend the hand to; hand or pass something.
- Please rax me the pitcher.
* 1825 , John Wilson, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, James Hogg, William Maginn and John Gibson Lockhart, Noctes Ambrosianæ No. XVIII'', in ''Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine , vol. 17:
- Wha the mischief set him on reading me? I'm sure he could never read onything in a dacent-like way since he was cleckit—rax' me the Queen, and I'll let you hear a bit that will gar your hearts dinnle again—' rax me the Queen, I say.
(UK, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, intransitive) To perform the act of reaching or stretching; stretch one's self; reach for or try to obtain something
(UK, dialectal, chiefly, Scotland, intransitive) To stretch after sleep.
Derived terms
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Related terms
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Etymology 2
Shortening of barracks.
Noun
(en-noun)
barracks
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rated English
Verb
(head)
(rate)
Derived terms
* (l)
Adjective
( en adjective)
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.1:
- He tooke it up, and thence with him did beare, / As rated Spaniell takes his burden up for feare.
* 1849 , , Shirley :
- He merely passed by sheepishly with a rated , scowling look.
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