▪ I. racked, ppl. a.1
(rækt)
[f. rack v.1 + -ed1.]
Driven along, as clouds by the wind.
| 1858 Kingsley Poems 150 Winds, upon whose racked eddies, far aloft, My thoughts in exultation held their way. |
▪ II. racked, ppl. a.2
(rækt)
[f. rack n.2 or v.2 + -ed.]
Fitted with a rack or racks.
| 1890 Anthony's Photogr. Bull. III. 128 A metal racked frame to fit inside a plain wooden box. |
▪ III. racked, ppl. a.3
(rækt)
[f. rack v.3 + -ed1.]
1. That is racked, in various senses of the vb.; stretched, strained, tortured by stretching, etc.
| 1571 Golding Calvin on Ps. iv. 1 Wheras some translate thys woord (for ever)..I do reject as a racked translation. 1583 Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. i. (1882) 24 They will be sure to make price of their racked cloth, double and triple more than it cost them. 1611 Chapman Widowes T. Wks. 1873 III. 59 Much more worth than the rackt value. 1632 Lithgow Trav. x. 484 The maintayning of my Lame and Racked body. 1867 Trollope Chron. Barset I. i. 11 He endeavoured to tell the truth, as far as his poor racked imperfect memory would allow him. 1894 Hall Caine Manxman v. xix. 341 The torn heart and racked brain could bear no more. |
2. Of rent: Raised to excess. Cf. rack-rent.
| 1583 Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. i. (1882) 29 He might haue it freely for this racked rent. 1668 R. L'Estrange Vis. Quev. (1708) 164 Impositions, hard Services, and Rackt Rents. 1725 Ramsay Gentle Sheph. ii. i, Never did he stent Us in our thriving with a racket rent. 1799 J. Robertson Agric. Perth 404 Racked rents..disable the tenant to improve. |
b. Of men, their living, etc.: Oppressed by or subjected to extortion or excessive rent.
| 1628 Wither Brit. Rememb. ii. 1713 That Crew of Spend⁓thrifts..Were now, among their racked Tenants faine To seeke for shelter. 1643 Prynne Sov. Power Parl. ii. 30 Weekely or monethly assessements and contributions..exceeding many mens racked incomes. 1781 Cowper Expost. 304 Thy racked inhabitants repine, complain. |
3. racked-out, (a) completely exhausted; (b) passed through with suffering.
| 1870 Sir S. Northcote in Life (1890) II. xii. 30 The old racked-out tobacco and corn lands. 1900 W. A. Ellis Life Wagner 332 The harvest of the last outlived, or rather racked-out Summer. |
▪ IV. racked, ppl. a.4
(rækt)
[f. rack v.5 + -ed1.]
Drawn off or emptied by racking.
| 1519 W. Horman Vulg. 294 b, Whither so euer I go: I haue with me racked wyne. 1563 T. Gale Antidot. ii. 83 In the latter drinke we haue vsed to put in rackte Renishe Wyne. 1626 Bacon Sylva §306 Powre the Lees of the Racked Vessell into the vnracked Vessell. 1764 Mass. Gazette No. 3149/4 Good rack'd and refin'd Cyder. |