Wase vs Rase - What's the difference?
wase | rase |
(UK, dialect) A bundle of straw, or other material, to relieve the pressure of burdens carried upon the head.
A scratching out, or erasure
A slight wound; a scratch
A way of measuring in which the commodity measured was made even with the top of the measuring vessel by rasing, or striking off, all that was above it
(obsolete) to rub along the surface of; to graze
* South
* Beckford
(obsolete) to rub or scratch out; to erase
* Fuller
to level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze
* Chapman
to be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow
As nouns the difference between wase and rase
is that wase is (uk|dialect) a bundle of straw, or other material, to relieve the pressure of burdens carried upon the head while rase is case.wase
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(en noun)- (Halliwell)
rase
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(en noun)Verb
(ras)- Was he not in the neighbourhood to death? and might not the bullet which rased his cheek have gone into his head?
- Sometimes his feet rased the surface of water, and at others the skylight almost flattened his nose.
- Except we rase the faculty of memory, root and branch, out of our mind.
- Till Troy were by their brave hands rased , / They would not turn home.