racking crook

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• Racking

  ·noun Spun yarn used in racking ropes. II. Racking ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Rack>>. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• racking

  Spun-yarn or other stuff used to rack two parts of a rope together. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Crook

  ·noun A <<Pothook>>. II. Crook ·noun Any implement having a bent or crooked end. III. Crook ·noun ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• crook

  Sixpence. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• racking-turns

  See nippering. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Throw-crook

  ·noun An instrument used for twisting ropes out of straw. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• crook back

  Sixpence; for the reason of this name, see CRIPPLE. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• crook shanks

  A nickname for a man with bandy legs. He buys his boots in Crooked Lane, and his stockings in Bandy-...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• crook-lug

  a long pole with a hook at the end of it, used for pulling down dead branches of trees. Glou. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• racking a laniard

  The fastening two running parts together with a seizing, so as to prevent it from rendering through ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• racking a tackle or laniard

  The fastening two running parts together with a seizing, so as to prevent it from rendering through ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• crook your elbow

  To crook one's elbow, and wish it may never come straight, if the fact then affirmed is not true--ac...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• by hook or by crook

  One way or other; by any expedient.--Johnson. It can't be done by hook or crook, Unless your Highn...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.