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1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. § 1318 The racking-can, tun-pail, dropping-bag, bottling-bench, and box for carrying bottles.

1846 W. L. Tizard Theory & Pract. Brewing (ed. 2) xx. 547 A more perfect racking-engine than such as are in ordinary use.

1846 W. L. Tizard Theory & Pract. Brewing (ed. 2) xx. 547 The racking tap,..is made long enough to project some few inches above the bottom of the vessel.

1851 DeBow's Rev. 10 27 The fire is now damped, and the crust removed by skimming; occasionally, however, the clear liquid is drawn off by a racking-cock from underneath.

1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Aug. 3/1 The cask..is further cleaned with steam..before being allowed to roll off into the ‘racking shed’, where it is filled with porter.

1892 H. E. Wright Handy Bk. Brewers i. 42 Certain albumenoid bodies..consequently go out of solution in the cask itself, instead of being left behind in the fermenting or racking vessels.

1892 H. E. Wright Handy Bk. Brewers xiii. 503 Racking hose..and racking cocks of fermenting vessels require attention.

1911 Portsmouth (New Hampsh.) Daily Herald 27 Nov. 11/6 The racking cellar is equipped with one 6 arm and one 8 arm automatic racker and two filterers.

1953 Word for Word (Whitbread & Co.) 30/2 Rack, to fill a cask or container with beer in a brewery, hence racking cock, racking machine. The term is also used for wines.

1978 T. Kinsella Coll. Poems (1996) 219 He brandished his solid body Thirty feet high above their heads therefore And with a shout of laughter Traversed a steel beam in the Racking Shed.

1979 T. Foster Dr. Foster's Bk. Beer ii. 27 At the end of fermentation the beer is run directly into the casks, sometimes via a second vessel known as a ‘racking back’.

1990 Friends of Wine Spring 29/2 The repeated racking operations and natural settling and clarifying should enable him to dispense with both fining and filtration.