rax

American  

[raks] / ræks /

verb (used without object)

1. to stretch oneself, as after sleeping.

2. to extend the hand.

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verb (used with object)

1. to elongate; stretch.

rax British  

/ ræks /

verb

1. (tr) to stretch or extend

2. (intr) to reach out

3. (tr) to pass or give (something to a person) with the outstretched hand; reach

   rax me the salt

4. (tr) to strain or sprain

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noun

1. the act of stretching or straining

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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Example Sentences

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rax

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

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

Tak' care an' nae rax yersel' ower sair, Mr. Sutherlan'.

From David Elginbrod by George MacDonald

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

We've worn to crazy years thegither; We'll toyte about wi' ane anither; Wi' tentie care I'll flit thy tether To some hain'd rig, Whare ye may nobly rax your leather, Wi' sma' fatigue.

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

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