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rax

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Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
10
Letters
3
Pronunciation
/ɹæks/

Definition of rax

6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive)To stretch; stretch out.
    “Shoeless, he stood naked on his toes, his arms raxed upwards.”
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verb

  1. (Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive)To stretch; stretch out.
    “Shoeless, he stood naked on his toes, his arms raxed upwards.”
  2. (Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive)To reach out; reach or attain to.
  3. (Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive)To extend the hand to; hand or pass something.
    “Please rax me the pitcher.”
    “Wha the mischief set him on reading me? I'm sure he could never read onything in a dacent-like way since he was cleckit—rax me the Queen, and I'll let you hear a bit that will gar your hearts dinnle again—rax me the Queen, I say.”
  4. (Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, intransitive)To perform the act of reaching or stretching; stretch oneself; reach for or try to obtain something
  5. (Scotland, UK, dialectal, intransitive)To stretch after sleep.

noun

  1. (slang)barracks
    “Eventually they just broke our base and took out every single one of our raxes.”

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Etymology

From Middle English raxen, rasken (“to stretch oneself”), from Old English raxan, racsan (“to stretch oneself after sleep”), probably alteration, with formative s, of Old English rǣċan, ræċċan, reċċan (“to…

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From Middle English raxen, rasken (“to stretch oneself”), from Old English raxan, racsan (“to stretch oneself after sleep”), probably alteration, with formative s, of Old English rǣċan, ræċċan, reċċan (“to stretch, extend”), from Proto-Germanic *rakjaną (“to stretch”), from Proto-Indo-European *reǵ- (“to make straight”). Related to Dutch rekken (“to stretch”), German recken (“to stretch”), Swedish räcka (“to suffice, reach, pass, last”).

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