English

Verb

rax ‎(third-person singular simple present raxes, present participle raxing, simple past and past participle raxed)

1. (Britain, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, transitive) To stretch; stretch out.
   • 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:

     Shoeless, he stood naked on his toes, his arms raxed upwards.

2. (Britain, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, transitive) To reach out; reach or attain to.
3. (Britain, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, transitive) To extend the hand to; hand or pass something.

   Please rax me the pitcher.

   • 1825, John Wilson, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, James Hogg, William Maginn and John Gibson Lockhart, Noctes Ambrosianæ No. XVIII, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 17:

     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. (Britain, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, intransitive) To perform the act of reaching or stretching; stretch one's self; reach for or try to obtain something
5. (Britain, dialectal, chiefly Scotland, intransitive) To stretch after sleep.

Derived terms

• outrax

Related terms

• raxle

Translations

Etymology 2

Shortening of barracks.

Noun

rax ‎(plural rax or raxes)

1. (video game slang) barracks
   • 2014 March 19, Clinton "Fear" Loomis, Free to Play (Film), , 44:28:

     Eventually they just broke our base and took out every single one of our raxes.

Lojban

Rafsi

rax

1. rafsi of ranxi.