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noun
A walk, or a journey taken (especially on foot); the act of taking a walk or journey.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland, also, figuratively
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Synonyms: fare, journey, sith, trip
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The movement of animals while grazing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland
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noun
The pastureland over which animals graze; a range, a stray.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland
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noun
A journey to transport something between two places; a run; also, the quantity of items so transported.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland
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noun
Alternative spelling of rake (“rate of progress; pace, speed”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland, alt-of, alternative
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verb
To walk; to roam, to wander.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Midlands, Northern-England, Scotland, intransitive
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Synonyms: ambulate, pedestrianize, raik
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verb
Of animals (especially sheep): to graze.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Midlands, Northern-England, Scotland, intransitive
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verb
To roam or wander through (somewhere).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland, transitive
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History
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”).
See rake (noun) (etymology 4).
