rathe
Americanadjective
adjective
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blossoming or ripening early in the season
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eager or prompt
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of rathe
before 900; Middle English; Old English hræth, hræd quick, active; cognate with Dutch rad, Old Norse hrathr
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And we have "rathe and late," in a pastoral in Davidson's Poems, 4th edit.,
From Notes and Queries, Number 186, May 21, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell
One example of the extreme obscurity may be given:— ‘Then rathe was beroom’d, as the rich one was bidding, For the guests a-foot going the floor all withinward.’ l.
From The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography by Chauncey Brewster Tinker
Couldn't very well thell the whole rathe, ath it were, for a couple of hundred poundth, after that.
From Passing of the Third Floor Back by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
The wood's green heart is a nest of dreams, The lush grass thickens and springs and sways, The rathe wheat rustles, the landscape gleams— Midsummer days!
From The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour by James Runciman
On the other hand, we find the spellings rathe, rothe instead of rede in ll.
From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown
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