Middle English Dictionary Entry
rakken v.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | rakken v.(1) Also rakke, rekken. |
| Etymology | From rak n.(2). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To stretch (cloth) on a frame for drying; (b) ben rakked, of a person: to be put on a rack, tortured.
Associated quotations
a
- (1439) LRed Bk.Bristol2.173 : We..have ordeyned..that every maister of the seid Crafte of Dyers, when he hath dyed eny cloth and after such dyeng is putte to the towker to be rekked, that the iiij Maisters of dyers..may oversee al the defautes of every such clothe.
- a1525(?1435) Cov.Leet Bk.172 : No walker off the Cite of Couentre ne non oder man Shall Rakke no Clothe on the Tey[n]tur that schall be solde ffor wette-clothe.
- a1525(?1435) Cov.Leet Bk.172 : Yffe ony man that woll haue hys Clothe Rakked, that þe walkers abovesayde and all other Rakk hit to the vtmast as they han don affore this tyme, but they shull make non hengers off Clothe so Rakked.
b
- a1450(c1433) Lydg.St.Edm.(Hrl 2278)401/277 : This cursid Bern..Worthi to been enhangid bi the hals Or to be rakkid with a broke chyne..Reportid hath..How kyng Edmund slouh Lothbrok.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)6.651 : Scipioun..fro my wheel was sodenli cast doun..Bi ther hangman first cheynid in prisoun, Afftir rakked.