rax verb stretch, reach out; exert onself: You’ll no rax yoursel very much, will ye? 14-. etymology: Scots; Older Scots rax ‘to stretch, from ante 1400’, Old English rax an ‘to stretch oneself after sleep’. The Insular Scots form rex may be due to conflation of rax and Norwegian dialect rekkja ‘to strain, stretch out’; attested by JS and BW |