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rashing

rashing is the present participle and gerund of rash.

Meaning of rash

Verb

rash (third-person singular simple present rashes, present participle rashing, simple past and past participle rashed)

  1. (Scotland, archaic, obsolete, transitive) To forcefully move or push (someone or something) in a certain direction.
    • Reg[an]. VVherefore to Douer ſir? / Gloſt[er, i.e., Gloucester]. Becauſe I vvould not ſee thy cruell nayles / Pluck out his poore old eyes, nor thy fierce ſiſter / In his aurynted fleſh raſh boriſh phangs, […]c. 1603–1606 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] His True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Nathaniel Butter, […]...
  2. (Scotland, archaic, obsolete, transitive) To break (something) forcefully; to smash.
    • Fair lordes sayd syre Launcelot leue your noyse and your rassyng and I shalle sette open this dore and thenne may ye doo with me what it lyketh yow.
      "Fair lords, said Sir Launcelot, leave your noise and your rashing, and I shall set open this door, and then may ye do with me what it liketh you."1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur Book XX, Chapter iv, leaf 401v
  3. (Scotland, archaic, obsolete, transitive) To emit or issue (something) hastily.
  4. (Scotland, archaic, obsolete, rare, transitive) Usually followed by up: to prepare (something) with haste; to cobble together, to improvise.
    • Retur[n]e to the places of Peter, the one in his firſt epiſtle, the other in the latter: and ſo be you contented with this preſent anſvver raſhed up in haſte.1610 October, John Foxe, “[Translation of a Letter of Huldricus Zuinglius, 1 September 1527 (Julian calendar)]”, in The Second Volume of the Ecclesiasticall Historie, Containing the Acts and...
  5. (Scotland, archaic, intransitive, obsolete) To move forcefully, hastily, or suddenly; to dash, to rush.
  6. (Scotland, archaic, intransitive, obsolete) To fall heavily; to dash down.
    • […] the rain rashed down - the road was battered, As with the force of billows shattered; […]1849, William Wordsworth, The poems of William Wordsworth ... A new edition, page 133

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Phrases with rashing

Questions about rashing

What is rashing the present participle and gerund of?
Rashing is the present participle and gerund of rash.

Words near rashing in the dictionary

  1. Rashidun Caliphate
  2. Rashiduns
  3. rashie
  4. rashies
  5. rashifal
  6. rashing
  7. rashing up
  8. RAship
  9. rashiphal
  10. RAships
  11. Rashir

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