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Rack-rent
·vt To subject to rack-rent, as a farm or tenant. II. Rack-rent ·noun A rent of the full annual val...

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Rent
·- imp. & ·p.p. of Rend. II. Rent ·noun Pay; reward; share; toll. III. Rent ·vi To <<Rant>>. IV. ...

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Rent
(Isa. 3:24), probably a rope, as rendered in the LXX. and Vulgate and Revised Version, or as some pr...

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Rack
·noun A fast amble. II. Rack ·noun A wreck; destruction. III. Rack ·adj A grate on which bacon is ...

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rack
to rack or reck, to care j never rack you, never care. N. ...

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rack
The superior stratum of clouds, or that moving rapidly above the scud. The line in which the clouds ...

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To-rent
·Impf & ·p.p. of To-rend. ...

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New Rent
Tenement called" la Newrente " in Thamysestrete in parish of S. Michael de Candelwikstrete, 1317 (Ct...

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Romayn's Rent
On the south side of the church of St. Mary Aldermary, being lands and tenements so called, devised ...

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Rack-renter
·noun One who exacts rack-rent. II. Rack-renter ·noun One who is subjected to paying rack-rent. ...

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arm-rack
A frame or fitting for the stowage of arms (usually vertical) out of harm's way, but in readiness fo...

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rack-bar
A billet of wood used for twisting the bight of a swifter round, in order to bind a raft firmly toge...

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rack-block
A range of sheaves cut in one piece of wood, for running ropes to lead through. ...

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rack-hurry
The tram-way on which coal-waggons run to a hurry. ...

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rack-rider
The name of the samlet in northern fisheries, so called because it generally appears in bad weather....

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rack of mutton
the neck or crag. Lane. ...

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horse-shoe rack
A sweep curving from the bitt-heads abaft the main-mast carrying a set of nine-pin swivel-blocks as ...

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to stand up to the rack
A metaphorical expression of the same meaning as the like choice phrases, 'to come to the scratch;' ...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.