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Definition of Raxes
1. rax [v] - See also: rax
Lexicographical Neighbors of Raxes
Literary usage of Raxes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Barbizon Days: Millet, Corot, Rousseau, Barye by Charles Sprague Smith (1902)
"... the theme announced in the official programme; "Zenobia dead in the waves of
A raxes, picked up by fishermen." But his artistic common sense revolted. ..."
2. Family Romance: Or, Episodes in the Domestic Annals of the Aristocracy by Bernard Burke (1853)
"The words that he was in the habit of using were speats and raxes; which, being
interpreted into modern English, mean spits and ranges; the latter being the ..."
3. Tales of a Grandfather: Being the History of Scotland : from the Earliest by Walter Scott, Edwin Ginn (1897)
"... and raxes; that is, spits and ranges; meaning by this hint that there should
be a great quantity of food prepared, and that the spits and ranges, ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1869)
"... speats and raxes."—Lord Somerville's billet. NEVER wont to let the grass grow
under his feet, Henry of Navarre was impatient of awaiting his troops at ..."
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