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单词 rack jack
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rack jackn.

Forms: 1500s raks iaks (plural).
Origin: Probably an imitative or expressive formation. Etymon: racket n.2
Etymology: Probably imitative; perhaps intended to suggest a reduplication of rack- (in racket n.2), with variation of the initial consonant; the first and second element are apparently pluralized separately. Compare crack-rack adj., and also riff-raff n.2, huff-puff adj.
Obsolete. rare.
A tumult.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > confused sound > [noun] > uproar or tumult
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1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 5 Dare ye..Too raise such raks iaks on seas, and danger vnorderd [L. tantas audetis tollere moles]?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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