raik

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US, UK/ɹeɪk/

noun

A walk, or a journey taken (especially on foot); the act of taking a walk or journey.

Scrabble 8

Meanings

raik1

nounraik (plural raiks)

plural raiks · alternative rake

  1. Northern EnglandScotlandalsofigurativelyA walk, or a journey taken (especially on foot); the act of taking a walk or journey.

    Synonyms: fare, journey, sith, trip

  2. Northern EnglandScotlandThe movement of animals while grazing.
  3. Northern EnglandScotlandThe pastureland over which animals graze; a range, a stray.
  4. Northern EnglandScotlandA journey to transport something between two places; a run; also, the quantity of items so transported.
verbraik (third-person singular simple present raiks, present participle raiking, simple past and past participle raiked)

present singular third person raiks · participle present raiking · participle past raiked · past raiked · alternative rake

  1. MidlandsNorthern EnglandScotlandintransitiveTo walk; to roam, to wander.

    Synonyms: ambulate, navigate, pedestrianize

  2. MidlandsNorthern EnglandScotlandintransitiveOf animals (especially sheep): to graze.
  3. Northern EnglandScotlandtransitiveTo roam or wander through (somewhere).

raik2

nounraik (plural raiks)

plural raiks

  1. Northern EnglandScotlandalternativeAlternative spelling of rake (“rate of progress; pace, speed”).

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA walk, or a journey taken (especially on foot); the act of taking a walk or journey.

verbTo walk; to roam, to wander.

Origin

raik · noun, verb

  1. Proto-Indo-European*(o)reg'-
  2. Proto-Germanic*rēkō
  3. Old Norserák“trail”
  4. Middle Englishrake“path”
  5. Englishraik

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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