rackan hook
Also reckon hook (the usual form).
[f. rackan + hook n.]
= rackan-crook.
| 1645 Essex County (Mass.) Probate Rec. (1916) I. 50 Estate of William Goog of Lynn... One gridiron & recke hookes [etc.]. 1647 Ibid. 99 Estate of John Jarrat of Rowley..Reckon hooks & some small things, 4s. 1867 B. Brierley Marlocks of Meriton 41 His eyes still intent upon the ‘rackan'-hook’ hanging in the kitchen. 1961 M. W. Barley Eng. Farmhouse & Cottage iii. v. 175 In such houses as these, cooking was usually done in the house body. There, along with the iron range and the reckon hook, were the bakestone and the wooden boards..with which oatcakes were made. |