reest

¹ American  

[reest] / rist /

verb (used with object)

Scot. and North England.

1. to cure, smoke, or dry (meat or fish).

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reest ² American  

[reest] / rist /

Or reist

verb (used without object)

Scot. and North England.

1. (of a horse) to stop or refuse to go; balk.

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reest British  

/ riːst /

verb

1. dialect (intr) (esp of horses) to be noisily uncooperative

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Etymology

Origin of reest¹

1500–10; perhaps < Scandinavian; compare Danish, Norwegian riste to roast

Origin of reest²

First recorded in 1780–90; dialectal variant of rest ¹

Example Sentences

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reest

Gay Garland had carried my father over long to reest with him at the hinderend.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Scot. reest, reist, means to stand stock-still— "Certain it was that Shagram reisted, and I ken Martin thinks he saw something."

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest