reak
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Compare Icelandic hrekkr, or English wreak vengeance.
Noun edit
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 edit
Compare wrack (“seaweed”).
Noun edit
reak (plural reaks)
- 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)