Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A. variant of reek.

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Examples

  • Middle Earth, 23691 reik said ... interesting i like your posts ...

    Keep On Darthin' In The Free World 2005

  • Van die innigste herinneringe wat ek met my sal saamdra, is oor hoe ons mense, in die bestek van so 'n kort tydjie, geleer het om bo historiese verskille uit te reik en hande te vat om saam te bou aan' n nuwe verenigde nasie.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • Deels spruit die tragedie van ons land uit die feit dat te weinig mense in die wit gemeenskap nog ooit daarin geslaag het om oplossings te oorweeg wat verder reik as hul besondere belange, en om die belange te plaas binne die konteks van dieregte van alle

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • ANC aanhou om uit te reik na diegene wat verstrengel is deur hul eie vrese vir verandering en demokrasie.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • "Sudiev 'kvietkeli, tu brangiausis; Sudiev' ir laime, man biednam, Matau -- paskyre teip Aukszcziausis, Jog vargt ant svieto reik vienam!"

    The Jungle 1906

  • And then he's sic an auld-farran lang-headed chield as never took up the trade o 'cateran in our time; mony a daft reik he has played --- mair than wad fill a book, and a queer ane it wad be --- as gude as Robin Hood, or William

    Rob Roy 1887

  • ` ` I used to laugh heartily at that reik; but I'll hardly hae the heart to do't again, since the ill-far'd accident at the Loch.

    Rob Roy 1887

  • But eh! the torments o 'that place! and the reik that gangs up for ever an' ever, smorin '(smothering) the stars!

    Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864

  • Katie Sweerock, frae where she sat, cried, "Reik me this, and reik me that."

    The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836

  • And then he's sic an auld-farran lang-headed chield as never took up the trade o 'cateran in our time; mony a daft reik he has played -- mair than wad fill a book, and a queer ane it wad be -- as gude as Robin Hood, or William Wallace -- a' fu 'o' venturesome deeds and escapes, sic as folk tell ower at a winter ingle in the daft days.

    Rob Roy — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801

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