Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To stretch, or stretch out; reach out: reach or attain to; extend the hand to; hand: as, rax me ower the pitcher.
- To perform the act of reaching or stretching; stretch one's self; reach for or try to obtain something.
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- verb UK, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, transitive To
stretch ; stretch out. - verb UK, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, transitive To
reach out; reach orattain to. - verb UK, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, transitive To
extend the hand to;hand orpass something. - verb UK, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, intransitive To perform the act of reaching or stretching; stretch one's self; reach for or try to obtain something
- verb UK, dialectal, intransitive To
stretch after sleep. - noun gaming slang
barracks
Etymologies
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Examples
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  Depending on your individual situation, the replacement may qualify you for a rax rebate for 2009.
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I guess this is similar to using the word ‘socialism’ to describe marginal rax rates lower than what was in effect during the Reagan years.
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Dunno bowt teh sawft, butt ! server rax iz teh warm 4 shure — LCB mite can haz uh grate nap dere, I finksew…
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Where ye may nobly rax your leather, [stretch, sides]
Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907
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Is this young Wat Scott? an wad ye rax his craig,
Muckle-Mou'd Meg 1895
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--- When we had a Scotch Parliament, Pate, 'says I (and deil rax their thrapples that reft us o't!) ` they sate dousely down and made laws for a haill country and kinrick, and never fashed their beards about things that were competent to the judge ordinar
Rob Roy 1887
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“Eh, if I could win at him, I wud rax the banes o 'him.”
Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Ramsay, Edward B 1874
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Sit ye doon aside me, and rax ower to the Bible, and jist read that hunner and saivent psalm.
Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864
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Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (64-bit): rax: 0x0000000000000000 rbx: 0x00007fff5fbfe45c rcx: 0x00007fff709b5630 rdx:
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Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (64-bit): rax: 0x0000000000123200 rbx: 0x0000000000000000 rcx: 0x000000011385d000 rdx:
bilby commented on the word rax
Scots - to strain, sprain.
December 19, 2007