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  • raper
    [OEDS I idem; OED indicates rapist as US, but it is now the current Brit. term (Pye p.c.)] n. rapist:
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  • rap (2)
    [OED, to strike] v. (in playing cards) to knock on the table to prevent another player from withdrawing his card: Charles
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  • rap (1)
    [cf. US Black rap to converse, to verbally flirt (Claerbaut); OED rap (out) to utter (an oath); slang rap to
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  • rantamskeet
    [etym? but cf. US dial. North rantum scoot outing, picnic ADD; also OED rantum scantum harum scarum, disorderly obs. →
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  • rake
    v. 1. [cf. RAKEn.] to collect salt in a salt-pan with a rake: 1782 They go to ... rake salt
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  • race (2)
    [OED, a contest of speed] n. a contest (not necessarily of speed): 1918 Le's have a race! [i.e., a tug-of-war]
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  • rank land
    [OED rank luxuriant in growth] n. land with high trees and dense vegetation. = HIG BUSH, HIGH COPPET(White)
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  • random
    [cf. US Black random rambling talk: "Stop your random" (Van Patten 1931:30); from OED random having no definite aim, possibly
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  • rancy
    (Black); ramcy (Eleu.); ramsy /rArnzil (Exuma) [cf.-.Brit, dial. West rancy rancid EDD] adj. rancid; moldy: He mussy ain't wash he
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  • ranch
    [Car.; cf. Sp. rancho hut] n. 1.a small, one-room shack. (Nassau) 2. often the ranch, a thatched hut used temporarily
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