rack-rentedadj.

Brit.

/ˈrakˌrɛntᵻd/, U.S.

/ˈrækˌrɛn(t)əd/

Forms: 1600s racke-rented, 1600s– rack-rented.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rack rent n., -ed suffix²; rack-rent v., -ed suffix¹.

Etymology: < rack rent n. + -ed suffix²; compare rented adj.¹ In later use partly also < rack-rent v. + -ed suffix¹.

1. Of a tenant: paying a rack rent; oppressed and impoverished by paying a rack rent. Chiefly historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > one who has tenure > [adjective] > befitting a tenant > type of tenant

kindly1507

rack-rented1605

controlled1923

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iii. 113 The needie, hard-racke-rented Hinde.

1647 Petition to Fairfax in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Fourth Pt. (1701) II. xxi. 936 Your petitioners all rack-rented..have for nigh Six Years past born the Charge of Free Quartering Soldiers without any deduction of Rent.

1777 J. Cradock Lett. from Snowdon 71 The rack-rented tenant if he can acquire a scanty subsistence is chained to his native soil.

1787 B. Franklin Philos. & Misc. Papers 173 The few rich and haughty landlords, the multitude of poor, abject, rack-rented, tythe-paying tenants.

1831 Times 26 Mar. 6/2 There is no place in all Ireland (and we are a rack-rented people) in which rents are enforced with such atrocious oppression.

1876 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 39 652 We have the emancipation of some cultivators as copyholders, the subsidence of others into rack-rented tenants-at-will, and then into labourers.

1893 F. Peel Spen Valley viii. 120 The appeal of the poor rack-rented tenantry is in itself a notable phenomenon, and one cannot help wondering what shape it assumed.

1928 Times 27 Dec. 11/1 Rack-rented natives in the urban locations..flocked to join the movement.

1967 Lima (Ohio) News 15 Oct. c15/6 Observers report that many rack-rented Vietnamese fear peace.

1993 Times (Nexis) 23 Feb. Socialist governments must exercise their power on behalf of the disadvantaged and the dispossessed, as it was exercised on behalf of rack-rented tenant farmers by Gladstone's Irish Land Act.

2. Of a property: let at a rack rent.

ΚΠ

1754 Rep. Cases King's Bench Reign George II 348 He had such an interest in the estate as was properly his own, and contra~distinguished to a rack-rented estate.

1784 R. Bage Barham Downs I. 203 The poor fellow has a wife and five children, and works to maintain them harder than a galley slave, upon a rack rented farm of the Justice's.

1832 Times 2 Nov. 3/1 The inhabitant of a rack-rented house, at an old valuation, is thus subjected to a double hardship.

1869 Edinb. Evening Courant 7 Dec. (Suppl.) 4/3 So far from the estate being rack-rented, the tenants frequently obtain £20 to £25 for the goodwill of their farms.

1895 ‘I. Maclaren’ Beside Bonnie Brier Bush ii. i A' wonder hoo her son is gettin' on wi' that fairm he's takin'; a' doot it's rack-rented.

1970 Daily Tel. 9 Oct. (Colour Suppl.) 25 Rack-rented, crumbling, overcrowded tenements with one blocked lavatory for 35 people.

1995 R. J. Scally End of Hidden Ireland i ii. 28 Ballykilcline was by no means among the most rack-rented estates in Ireland.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	rack-rented
释义	rack-rentedadj. Brit. /ˈrakˌrɛntᵻd/, U.S. /ˈrækˌrɛn(t)əd/ Forms: 1600s racke-rented, 1600s– rack-rented. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rack rent n., -ed suffix²; rack-rent v., -ed suffix¹. Etymology: < rack rent n. + -ed suffix²; compare rented adj.¹ In later use partly also < rack-rent v. + -ed suffix¹. 1. Of a tenant: paying a rack rent; oppressed and impoverished by paying a rack rent. Chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > one who has tenure > [adjective] > befitting a tenant > type of tenant kindly1507 rack-rented1605 controlled1923 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iii. 113 The needie, hard-racke-rented Hinde. 1647 Petition to Fairfax in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Fourth Pt. (1701) II. xxi. 936 Your petitioners all rack-rented..have for nigh Six Years past born the Charge of Free Quartering Soldiers without any deduction of Rent. 1777 J. Cradock Lett. from Snowdon 71 The rack-rented tenant if he can acquire a scanty subsistence is chained to his native soil. 1787 B. Franklin Philos. & Misc. Papers 173 The few rich and haughty landlords, the multitude of poor, abject, rack-rented, tythe-paying tenants. 1831 Times 26 Mar. 6/2 There is no place in all Ireland (and we are a rack-rented people) in which rents are enforced with such atrocious oppression. 1876 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 39 652 We have the emancipation of some cultivators as copyholders, the subsidence of others into rack-rented tenants-at-will, and then into labourers. 1893 F. Peel Spen Valley viii. 120 The appeal of the poor rack-rented tenantry is in itself a notable phenomenon, and one cannot help wondering what shape it assumed. 1928 Times 27 Dec. 11/1 Rack-rented natives in the urban locations..flocked to join the movement. 1967 Lima (Ohio) News 15 Oct. c15/6 Observers report that many rack-rented Vietnamese fear peace. 1993 Times (Nexis) 23 Feb. Socialist governments must exercise their power on behalf of the disadvantaged and the dispossessed, as it was exercised on behalf of rack-rented tenant farmers by Gladstone's Irish Land Act. 2. Of a property: let at a rack rent. ΚΠ 1754 Rep. Cases King's Bench Reign George II 348 He had such an interest in the estate as was properly his own, and contra~distinguished to a rack-rented estate. 1784 R. Bage Barham Downs I. 203 The poor fellow has a wife and five children, and works to maintain them harder than a galley slave, upon a rack rented farm of the Justice's. 1832 Times 2 Nov. 3/1 The inhabitant of a rack-rented house, at an old valuation, is thus subjected to a double hardship. 1869 Edinb. Evening Courant 7 Dec. (Suppl.) 4/3 So far from the estate being rack-rented, the tenants frequently obtain £20 to £25 for the goodwill of their farms. 1895 ‘I. Maclaren’ Beside Bonnie Brier Bush ii. i A' wonder hoo her son is gettin' on wi' that fairm he's takin'; a' doot it's rack-rented. 1970 Daily Tel. 9 Oct. (Colour Suppl.) 25 Rack-rented, crumbling, overcrowded tenements with one blocked lavatory for 35 people. 1995 R. J. Scally End of Hidden Ireland i ii. 28 Ballykilcline was by no means among the most rack-rented estates in Ireland. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1605
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