Meaning

4 senses
  1. (Northern England, Scotland, also, figuratively)A walk, or a journey taken (especially on foot); the act of taking a walk or journey.

  2. (Northern England, Scotland)The movement of animals while grazing.

  3. (Northern England, Scotland)The pastureland over which animals graze; a range, a stray.

  4. (Northern England, Scotland)A journey to transport something between two places; a run; also, the quantity of items so transported.

Origin

From Middle English rake (“path”), from Old Norse rák (“trail”), from Proto-Germanic *rēkō

From Middle English rake (“path”), from Old Norse rák (“trail”), from Proto-Germanic *rēkō, *raką, *rakō, *rakǭ (“file of tracks, line”), from Proto-Indo-European *(o)reg'-, *(o)reg'a- (“to straighten, direct”). Cognate with Icelandic rák (“streak, grazing”), Icelandic raka (“strip, series”), Norwegian røk (“grazing”), Norwegian rak (“wick”), Old English race, racu (“a run, riverbed”).

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Forms

plural: raiks
Singularraik
Pluralraiks

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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