▪ I.† ˈrakylObs.rare—1. ? var. of rakent rackan. (Jamieson (1808) has ‘Rackle, a chain’.) c1430Lydg.Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 113 He dyght hym in a dyvelles garment,..He cam in at the chyrch dore..Rynnyng, roryng, wythe hys rakyls, as devilles semyd to doo. ▪ II.rakyl(l obs. forms of rackle a.