▪ I. ˈrakel Obs. exc. dial.
Abbrev. of rake-hell.
| 1622 Boys Wks. 413 This rakel-like behauiour is not in imperfect words only, but in scornful gestures of contempt. a 1661 Fuller Worthies (1840) III. 207 In Cambridge, where (when a youth) he was a Rakel in grain. 1670 Cotton Espernon iii. xi. 545 A Cooper that had put himself in the head of a crew of Rakels of his own profession. 1886 Cheshire Gloss., Rakell, a thoroughly bad man. |
▪ II. rakel
obs. form of rackle a.