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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
rax .
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Examples
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Cloured crowns were plenty, and raxed necks came into fashion.
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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?
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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
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"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
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It's twa-three days since the doctor certifiedst him; noo his muscles hae stiffened and raxed him up.
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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
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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.
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I've raxed its seams, and it'll never look again on the man that owns it.
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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.
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"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."
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