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单词 wracker
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wrackern.1

/ˈrakə/
Etymology: < wrack v.2 + -er suffix1.
rare.
One who wrecks, ruins, or subverts.
ΚΠ
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Ruineur, a ruiner, wracker, spoyler.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online January 2018).

wrackern.2

Etymology: < wrack v.3 + -er suffix1, or < Middle Low German wraker (whence Danish vrager sorter).
Obsolete. rare.
= wraker n.
ΘΚΠ
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
the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > inspection, survey > [noun] > maintenance of standards > person employed in
searcher1417
conner1467
policiera1500
cunster1535
wraker1584
wracker1719
sampler1778
overhauler1860
fruit-meter1881
quality controller1947
1584 Sc. Acts, Jas. VI III. (1814) 302 [To] appoint ane discrete man to be visitour, wraker [v.r. wracker], gager, and birnar of the saidis treis.]
1719 in Rec. Convent. Royal Burghs Scot. (1885) V. 217 By means of wrackers of herrings to be imported there.
1719 in Rec. Convent. Royal Burghs Scot. (1885) V. 217 To appoint..ane overseer of these wrackers.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

wrackern.3

/ˈrakə/
Etymology: < wrack n.2 3 + -er suffix1 1. Compare vraicker n. at vraic n. Derivatives.
rare.
One who collects wrack, vraic, or seaweed.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > picking or gathering > [noun] > seaweed-gathering > seaweed-gatherer
wracker1833
vraicker1835
1833 Fraser's Mag. 7 293 The Norman wrackers, as they gathered sea-weed on the beach.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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