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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of rax.

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Examples

  • Cloured crowns were plenty, and raxed necks came into fashion.

    Redgauntlet 2008

  • What deevil could he hae to say to Jeanie Deans, or to ony woman on earth, that he suld gang awa and get his neck raxed for her?

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

  • Next day my lord the Marquis came round Lochlong and Glencroe in a huge chariot with four wheels, the first we had ever seen in these parts, a manner of travel incumbent upon him because of a raxed shoulder he had met with at Dunbarton.

    John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

  • "I daresay I do, and I wish to God it was only this raxed arm that was the worst of my ailment."

    John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

  • It's twa-three days since the doctor certifiedst him; noo his muscles hae stiffened and raxed him up.

    Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease

  • Sir Alasdair gave a gesture of contempt and cried, "Faugh! we've heard of the raxed arm: he took care when he was making his tale that he never made it a raxed leg."

    John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

  • I gaped away the hours in a vile hole waiting for my craig (neck) to be raxed (twisted); the night I drink old claret in the best of company before a cheery fire.

    A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 William MacLeod Raine 1912

  • I've raxed its seams, and it'll never look again on the man that owns it.

    The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies John Buchan 1907

  • I raxed me a meal fra galley-shelves an 'pantries an' lazareetes an 'cubby-holes that I would not ha' gied to the mate of a Cardiff collier; an 'ye ken we say a Cardiff mate will eat clinkers to save waste.

    The Day's Work - Volume 1 Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • "Ow, weel! but ye micht hae waitit till Donal cam 'hame; he wad hae dune 't in half the time, an' no raxed his jints."

    Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864

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