Raxed vs Rated - What's the difference?
raxed | rated |
(rax)
(UK, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, transitive) To stretch; stretch out.
* 1974 , Guy Davenport, Tatlin! :
(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.
* 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:
(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.
barracks
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(rate)
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.1:
* 1849 , , Shirley :
As verbs the difference between raxed and rated
is that raxed is past tense of rax while rated is past tense of rate.As an adjective rated is
scolded, rebuked.raxed
English
Verb
(head)rax
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) raxen, .Verb
(es)- Shoeless, he stood naked on his toes, his arms raxed upwards.
- Please rax me the pitcher.
- 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.
Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
Shortening of barracks.Noun
(en-noun)rated
English
Verb
(head)Derived terms
* (l)Adjective
(en adjective)- He tooke it up, and thence with him did beare, / As rated Spaniell takes his burden up for feare.
- He merely passed by sheepishly with a rated , scowling look.