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
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Sit ye doon aside me, and rax ower to the Bible, and jist read that hunner and saivent psalm.
From Alec Forbes of Howglen by George MacDonald
He, mair than a' the lave o' men, His week completit joys to ken; Half-dressed, he daunders out an' in, Perplext wi' leisure; An' his raxt limbs he'll rax again Wi' painfü' pleesure.
From A Lowden Sabbath Morn by Robert Louis Stevenson
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
Pro tho' rax, the most anterior division of the thorax.
From A Guide for the Study of Animals by Frederic Lucas
Tak' care an' nae rax yersel' ower sair, Mr. Sutherlan'.
From David Elginbrod by George MacDonald
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