Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Middle English forms of
run , runner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To run.
- transitive verb obsolete To plunder; -- only in the phrase “to rape and
renne .” See underrap , v. t., to snatch.
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Examples
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Can I vote for renne Montaya/Question back-ups in Detective?
They’ve got your back | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009
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And he had made a conduyt undir erthe, so that the 3 weles, at his list, on scholde renne milk, another wyn, and another hony.
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And he had made a conduyt undir erthe, so that the 3 weles, at his list, on scholde renne milk, another wyn, and another hony.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And thenne they dressyd hem on bothe partyes of the felde, & lete their horses renne so fast that eyther smote other in the myddes of the shelde, with their speres hede, that bothe hors and man wente to the erthe.
A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman
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It is much to be regretted that this ballad, which from internal evidence (_e. g._ the use of the word ‘renne, ’ 1. 2) is to be attributed to an early age, should have become so incoherent and corrupted by oral tradition.
Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series Frank Sidgwick
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"§ At lest wise, if it be a poinet of good service, to renne awaie at all times, when the countree hath most neede of his helpe to sticke to it."
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[33] Right so, if thou be religious, renne thou never ferthere
The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London 1901
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The proctor and his men I made to renne their ways,
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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I shall make the dasters [572] to renne [573] into a bag,
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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It were to be wished, that naturalists, who are acquainted with the renne and elk of
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