rank
“to market—It is the right butter-women's,”
AS YOU LIKE IT, iii. 2. 88.
File, order, jog-trot. (In a note on these words Mr. Staunton observes,“From a passage in Drayton's poem, ‘The Shepherd's
Sirena,’ it might be inferred that ‘rank’ was a familiar term for chorus or rhyme:
‘On thy bank,
In a rank,
Let thy swans sing her;’;” but by“rank” Drayton assuredly means “row.”)
‘On thy bank,
In a rank,
Let thy swans sing her;’;” but by“rank” Drayton assuredly means “row.”)
