raise

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

To make a raise. A vulgar American phrase, meaning to make a haul, to raise the wind.

The chances were altogether favorable for making a raise, without fear of detection.--Simon Suggs, p. 48.

TO RAISE

To cause to grow; to procure to he produced, bred, or propagated; as to raise wheat, barley, hops, &c.; to raise horses, oxen, or sheep.--Webster.

In England they use grow when speaking of the crops. Raise is applied in the Southern States to the breeding of negroes. It is sometimes heard at the North among the illiterate; as, 'I was raised in Connecticut,' meaning brought up there. See more in Pickering's Vocabulary.

You know I was raised, as they say in Virginia, among the mountains of the North.--Paulding, Letters from the South, Vol. I. p. 85.

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