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单词 to rax a halter
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to rax a halter
b. transitive. To extend by pulling; to stretch. to rax (a person's) crag (also neck): to hang (a person). † to rax a halter: to be hanged (obsolete).
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1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xi. xvi. 61 Now hir handis raxit it [sc. a bow] euery stede.
a1560 Remembrance Passion 378 in J. A. W. Bennett Devotional Pieces (1955) Lord Jesu, that tholit tobe raxit and drawin apoun the croce.
1613 P. Forbes Comm. Rev. 229 He had a long chaine, which yet was further raxed.
1714 R. Smith Poems 94 If ye rax me limb and lith, Then take the Coat of Robie Smith.
1787 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 213 Ye wha leather rax an' draw.
1789 D. Davidson Thoughts Seasons 21 For cowards some their craigs had racks'd.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iv, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 113 When ye gang to see a man..raxing a halter.
1861 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. Sc. Life 2nd Ser. 106 If I could win at him, I wud rax the banes o' him.
1915 J. Wilson Lowland Sc. Lower Strathearn 210 Aa'll rax your craig for ye.
1999 Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram (Nexis) 3 Mar. 11 Aye, ay'll rax yer craig sae eith as kiss ma luif.
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