reak
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɹiːk/
- Rhymes: -iːk
Etymology 1
Compare Icelandic hrekkr, or English wreak vengeance.
Noun
reak (plural reaks)
- (obsolete) A prank.
- c. 1622, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Sea-Voyage. A Comedy.”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act IV, scene ii:
- They play such reaks.
Etymology 2
Compare wrack (“seaweed”).
Noun
reak (plural reaks)
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)