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单词 racker
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rackern.1

Forms: see rack v.1 and -er suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rack v.1, -er suffix1.
Etymology: < rack v.1 + -er suffix1. With sense 1a compare Dutch rakker, †racker torturer, hangman's assistant (1573; now usually in weakened sense ‘naughty boy’).
Obsolete.
1.
a. A person who stretches somebody on the rack.
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society > authority > punishment > torture > [noun] > torturer > one who operates rack
racker1558
rack-master1582
1558 Speciall Grace after Banket at Yorke sig. b.viii A woonder was it to see sum oother again, of our great Iusticers & learned men..how wickedly and willingly thei becam their rackers & tormentours.
1684 N. Lee Constantine iii. ii. 38 Ay Villain: Traitor, Thou! I'll Rack the Racker, till I find it out; For my misgiving Heart says thou know'st more.
a1750 A. Hill Wks. (1753) IV. 7 I'll rack the rackers—in my Inquisition.
1797 C. B. Schade New Pocket Dict. Eng. & German Lang. II. 288 Racker, tormentor.
1820 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 23 568 The constant employment of rackers and executioners.
1888 W. S. Gilbert Yeomen of Guard (1903) ii. 287 Thou tormentor that tormentest none—thou racker that rackest not.
b. A person who stretches, strains, or twists something (esp. the meaning of words). Also: a person who imposes rack rents.
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society > law > jurisprudence > [noun] > interpretation of the law > one who strains law
racker1565
extortor1611
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > distortion or perversion of meaning > [noun] > one who perverts
adulterer?c1430
writher1498
perverter?a1500
wrester1533
corruptera1538
wringerc1560
racker1565
wreather1566
hackera1603
wracker1719
torturer1830
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Contortor legum, a racker of lawes.
1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Diiijv Not roumerakers, nor rente rackers, Nor staynde with vices mo.
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. i. 20 Such rackers of ortagriphie, as to speake dout fine, when he should say doubt.
1607 T. Dekker Knights Conjuring sig. K3 Landlords dare not quarter themselues here, because they are Rackers of rents.
1617 J. Hales Serm. Oxf. 20 These rackers of Scripture, are by St. Peter stiled Vnstable.
1731 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd: Sang vii, in Gentle Shepherd (new ed.) II. 230 Rackers aft tine their rent.
1736 R. Ainsworth Thes. Linguæ Latinæ I Contortor,..a wracker, or wrester.
2. A tenant who rents land by the year at a rack rent. rare.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > one who has tenure > [noun] > one holding by type of farm tenure
racker1688
métayer1776
crofter1799
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 70/1 The Farmer, or Racker, or Dairy-Man..hold Lands..from the Lords thereof upon Rack or half-Rack, that is upon the yearly value or half value, having no certain term of holding [etc.].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

rackern.2

Brit. /ˈrakə/, U.S. /ˈrækər/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rack v.2, -er suffix1.
Etymology: < rack v.2 + -er suffix1.
1. A person who racks wine or other liquor.
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the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > [noun] > racking off > one who racks liquor
racker1611
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Frelateur, a racker of wine.
1701 Law-Lat. Dict. in F. O. Law-French Dict. A Racker of Wine.
1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 1 Apr. 8 Harris was what is called a racker.
2001 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 18 Aug. d2 Substantial pay cuts..for some workers, including rackers and blenders.
2. An apparatus for filling beer barrels.
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the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > brewing > [noun] > brewers' utensils
mash-rule1388
strum1394
tunning dish14..
rudder1410
graner1413
mashel1440
mash rudder1454
pig's foot1467
mask rudder1588
tunnel dish1610
paddle-staff1682
mash1688
mashing staff1688
mash-staff1688
oar1735
mashing-stick1741
porcupine1748
thrum1828
rouser1830
tun-pail1833
mashing oar1836
racker1843
attemperator1854
sparger1858
zymoscope1868
nurse1880
parachute1885
pitching machine1940
sparge arm1947
mash-stick1953
mash oar1974
1843 W. L. Tizard Theory & Pract. Brewing xx. 485 (heading) The Floating Racker.
1963 Lebende Sprachen 8 178/2 Faβabfüllapparat.., racker, racking machine.
1991 Business Hist. Rev. 65 260 (caption) A Barrel Racker, c. 1935.
2006 Purchasing (Nexis) 13 July 52 c19 The racker (keg-filling machine) fills a 13.2-gallon keg every 60 seconds.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

rackern.3

Brit. /ˈrakə/, U.S. /ˈrækər/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rack v.3, rack n.6, -er suffix1.
Etymology: < either rack v.3 or rack n.6 + -er suffix1.
A horse which moves with a racking gait.In quot. 1957 in extended use, of a person.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [noun] > type(s) of gait > rack > horse with racking gait
racker1678
1678 J. P. tr. J. Johnstone Descr. Nature Four-footed Beasts i. 8 The Persian Horses are..reckoned among the pacers, or amblers, and rackers, like neither, yet like both.
1819 J. N. Hambleton Jrnl. Aug. in Amer. Hist. Rev. (1950) 30 491 The horses of Venezuela are commonly about 14 hand high, have fine wind, speed and spirit..most of them are fine rackers.
1829 Sporting Mag. 23 266 The racker comes to us from our North Western territory.
1856 H. D. Thoreau Let. 6 Dec. in Corr. (1958) 444 The swiftest equine trotter or racker.
1891 Harper's Mag. Aug. 366/1 I have seen more than one racker of true Norman blood.
1903 A. D. McFaul Ike Glidden in Maine xiv. 108 Lickety got ter puffin' up his ole hoss, soze you'd a thought it was the Millbridge Racker.
1957 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 101 289/1 One of Curt Morse's comic portraits caricatures a hermit in Kennebec known as Willie the Racker, from the resemblance of his walk to a horse's gait.
2000 Arizona Republic (Nexis) 26 Nov. 10 b His father trained and traded rackers, gaited horses most often seen in show rings.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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