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Definition of Reaks
1. reak [v] - See also: reak
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reaks
Literary usage of Reaks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"Add; Reak signifies a trick or stratagem, as used in the South of S. To PATCH
reaks, to make up an intrigue, to plan a trick, ibid. ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1895)
"In 1770 he engraved a print, ' Sweets of Liberty,' after J. Collett ; this was
published by him and a Mr. reaks, near Temple Bar. In 1773 their names appear ..."
3. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"... to play monstrous reaks', Cotgrave (sv Diable); 'The heart of man in prayer
is most bent to play reakes in wandering from God', Boyd, Last Battel, ..."
4. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1865)
"When loose they hang against the sail like the teeth of a comb, from whence
apparently the name. Rif or rift inbinden, to take in a reef.—Kil. reaks. ..."
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