单词 | racker |
释义 | † rackern.1 Obsolete. 1. a. A person who stretches somebody on the rack. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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 1. A person who racks wine or other liquor. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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 A horse which moves with a racking gait.In quot. 1957 in extended use, of a person. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.11558n.21611n.31678 |
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