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▪ I. wracking
erron. f. racking vbl. n.3 (also attrib.).
1676Lond. Gaz. No. 1083/1 Certain Instruments..made use of for the wracking of Criminals. 1688Holme Armory iii. 311/1 A Wracking Plank, with a Rowling Wheel of so many Spokes. 1803W. Blake ‘I saw a Monk’ ii, Voltaire [arose] with a wracking wheel.
▪ II. wracking
erron. f. racking ppl. a.1 2.
1749Milton's P.L. (ed. Newton) ii. 182 We perhaps..shall be hurl'd Each on his rock transfix'd, the sport and prey Of wracking whirlwinds. 1837Carlyle Misc. Ess., Mirabeau, The sport of wracking winds. |