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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.
1469–70Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 280 In repar..unius rakencroke, iiijd. 1564Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees 1835) 223 Gibcrokes, rakincroke, and racks,..two Rayckincrokes and iiij spetes. 1648Lancash. Tracts Civil War (Chetham Soc.) 254 The very racken crocks and pot hooks. 1684Meriton Yorksh. Dialogue 39 Hing the Pan ore'th fire ith Rekin-Creauk. 1781J. 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.). |