rax
Americanverb (used without object)
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to stretch oneself, as after sleeping.
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to extend the hand.
verb (used with object)
verb
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(tr) to stretch or extend
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(intr) to reach out
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(tr) to pass or give (something to a person) with the outstretched hand; reach
rax me the salt
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(tr) to strain or sprain
noun
Etymology
Origin of rax
First recorded before 1000; Middle English (north) rasken, raxen, Old English racsan, raxan; akin to Old English reccan, reccean “to stretch,” German recken
Example Sentences
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Come, shake yourself, before I rax your bones; And give my bride the welcome due to her— My bride, the lady I have made my wife.
From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
The bairn willna be a hair the waur, and ’tis better so than that he shuld rax a’ our craigs.’
From A Modern Telemachus by Charlotte Mary Yonge
Monie mercies we receive gude trowth; and we're little thankfou for them, gude feth Janet, rax by the spunes, and a' praise and glory sall be thine.
From Amusing Prose Chap Books by Various
Adieu, my Liege; may freedom geck Beneath your high protection; An' may ye rax Corruption's neck, And gie her for dissection!
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
Is this young Wat Scott? an' wad ye rax his craig, When our daughter is fey for a man?
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Burton Egbert Stevenson
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