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racu

  • noun [ feminine ]
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racu, e; f.
Wright's OE grammar
§57; §365; §366;
A 'rake' (rake a mountain track across a steep, Cumberland Gloss. e. g. the Lord's rake on Sca-fell), a hollow path, bed of a stream
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  • Cf. Andlang bróces ; ðanon . . . on ða ealdan eárace, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. v. 122, 15 ; and see streám-racu. [Ryde doun þis ilk

    rake,

    bi ȝon rokke syde,
      Gaw. 2144.
  • Out of the

    rake

    of riȝtwisnes renne suld he nevire,
      Alex. 3384.
    ]
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  • racu, n.