rackan-crook north. dial.
Forms: 5–6 raken-, 6 rakon-, racon-, rackyn-, rayckin-, rakin(ge)-, 6, 9 rackin-, 7–9 racken-, 9 rackan-, rack-an'-; 7 rekin-, 7–9 reckin-, 9 reckon-.
[f. prec. + crook. Rackan-hook is used in the same sense in mod. dial.]
A rackan serving as a pot-hook, or a pot-hook used with a rackan.
| 1469–70 Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 280 In repar..unius rakencroke, iiijd. 1564 Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees 1835) 223 Gibcrokes, rakincroke, and racks,..two Rayckincrokes and iiij spetes. 1648 Lancash. Tracts Civil War (Chetham Soc.) 254 The very racken crocks and pot hooks. 1684 Meriton Yorksh. Dialogue 39 Hing the Pan ore'th fire ith Rekin-Creauk. 1781 J. H. Gloss. N.E. Words (E.D.S.), Rannle-balk, a piece of wood in a chimney, from which is hung the pot-crook, or racken-crook. 1869– In dialect glossaries (Lonsdale, Rochdale, Sheff., Northumb.). |