reak

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English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Compare Icelandic hrekkr, or English wreak vengeance.

Noun

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reak (plural reaks)

  1. (obsolete) A prank.

Etymology 2

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Compare wrack (seaweed).

Noun

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reak (plural reaks)

  1. A rush.
    • a. 1578, Thomas Drant, A medicinable morall:
      Feedes on reaks and reeds.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for reak”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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