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verb rakræk variant spelling of rack (sense 1 of the verb)
Usage On the complicated relationship between wrack and rack, see rack Rhymes aback, alack, attack, back, black, brack, clack, claque, crack, Dirac, drack, flack, flak, hack, jack, Kazakh, knack, lack, lakh, mac, mach, Nagorno-Karabakh, pack, pitchblack, plaque, quack, rack, sac, sack, shack, shellac, slack, smack, snack, stack, tach, tack, thwack, track, vac, wack, whack, yak, Zack noun rakræk mass nounAny of a number of coarse brown seaweeds which grow on the shoreline, frequently each kind forming a distinct band in relation to high- and low-water marks. Many have air bladders for buoyancy. Genera Fucus, Ascophyllum, and Pelvetia, class Phaeophyceae Example sentencesExamples - However, McLachlan and McGwynne quantified algal wrack as a nitrogen source for beaches as a whole.
- People come to pick over the beach wrack for the coiled, weather-revealed shells.
- Saw wrack is the main seaweed used, taken fresh from the shore, washed in seawater and stored briefly.
- Choose an unpolluted bit of rocky coast and collect a variety of weeds such as kelp and wrack (particularly Asophyllum nodosum), boil for 15 minutes and add to the bath water.
- Isopods and amphipods spend low tide buried in wrack, where variation in temperature and humidity is strongly damped relative to the exposed intertidal surface.
- The May scallach, coincident with the week between the full moon and the last quarter, brought one of the greatest yields of wrack of every description and species to the beach at Enniscrone.
- Deposited wrack may decompose in place or may be removed by subsequent tides leaving an unvegetated patch of bare soil.
- We are still finding out where wig wrack grows, we have 70+ confirmed sites in Scotland so far and four in Northern Ireland.
Origin Early 16th century: apparently from wrack4; compare with varec. rack from Middle English: The rack is the name of a medieval instrument of torture. It consisted of a frame on which a victim was stretched by turning rollers to which their wrists and ankles were tied. To rack someone was to torture them on this device, and from this we get rack your brains (late 16th century) to mean ‘to make a great effort to think of or remember something’. The rack (Middle English) that you stand things on is related, and both come from German rek ‘horizontal bar or shelf’. This is not, however, the origin of winemaking rack meaning ‘draw off from the sediment’ (Late Middle English). This is from Provençal arracar, from raca ‘stems and husks of grapes, dregs’. Another use of rack (late 16th century) represents yet another word. When something deteriorates through neglect we may say that it is going to rack and ruin. Rack here is a variant spelling of wrack, meaning ‘destruction’ and is related to wreck.
noun rakræk dialect, archaic 1A wrecked ship; a shipwreck. Example sentencesExamples - They spent more time underwater then on the dry Egyptian land, saw lots of fish, some ship wracks, dived at night, into caves and at the end of it all got their Advanced Diver certification.
- This ancient chart of the "Spanish wrack" as it is labeled, is owned by the present Duke of Argyll, and has been used by the modern treasure seekers who are unable even with its aid to find the remains of the Florencia, so deeply have her timbers sunk in the tide-swept silt of the bay.
- 1.1mass noun Wreckage.
Example sentencesExamples - Together, they collect flotsam and wrack that tell of shipwrecks, shifting undersea tectonic plates, the birth and death of sea creatures, their migrations and molts.
- The discovery of a fishing lure is always a thrill, a karmic giveback for all the lures Ive lost, a present poking out of the wrack and flotsam, given away by the attached rat's nest of mono filament.
Origin Late Middle English: from Middle Dutch wrak; related to wreak and wreck. verbrækrak variant spelling of rack (sense 1 of the verb)
Usage On the complicated relationship between wrack and rack, see rack nounrækrak Any of a number of coarse brown seaweeds which grow on the shoreline, frequently each kind forming a distinct band in relation to high- and low-water marks. Many have air bladders for buoyancy. Genera Fucus, Ascophyllum, and Pelvetia, class Phaeophyceae Example sentencesExamples - Deposited wrack may decompose in place or may be removed by subsequent tides leaving an unvegetated patch of bare soil.
- People come to pick over the beach wrack for the coiled, weather-revealed shells.
- However, McLachlan and McGwynne quantified algal wrack as a nitrogen source for beaches as a whole.
- Choose an unpolluted bit of rocky coast and collect a variety of weeds such as kelp and wrack (particularly Asophyllum nodosum), boil for 15 minutes and add to the bath water.
- Saw wrack is the main seaweed used, taken fresh from the shore, washed in seawater and stored briefly.
- We are still finding out where wig wrack grows, we have 70+ confirmed sites in Scotland so far and four in Northern Ireland.
- Isopods and amphipods spend low tide buried in wrack, where variation in temperature and humidity is strongly damped relative to the exposed intertidal surface.
- The May scallach, coincident with the week between the full moon and the last quarter, brought one of the greatest yields of wrack of every description and species to the beach at Enniscrone.
Origin Early 16th century: apparently from wrack; compare with varec. nounrækrak dialect, archaic 1A wrecked ship; a shipwreck. Example sentencesExamples - This ancient chart of the "Spanish wrack" as it is labeled, is owned by the present Duke of Argyll, and has been used by the modern treasure seekers who are unable even with its aid to find the remains of the Florencia, so deeply have her timbers sunk in the tide-swept silt of the bay.
- They spent more time underwater then on the dry Egyptian land, saw lots of fish, some ship wracks, dived at night, into caves and at the end of it all got their Advanced Diver certification.
- 1.1 Wreckage.
Example sentencesExamples - The discovery of a fishing lure is always a thrill, a karmic giveback for all the lures Ive lost, a present poking out of the wrack and flotsam, given away by the attached rat's nest of mono filament.
- Together, they collect flotsam and wrack that tell of shipwrecks, shifting undersea tectonic plates, the birth and death of sea creatures, their migrations and molts.
Origin Late Middle English: from Middle Dutch wrak; related to wreak and wreck. |