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1 racka, raccus, raka, rakka, rekka [ME racke, rak(ke), rekke] , rack, framework: a  (for holding fodder for livestock);; b (for stretching of cloth after being milled)tenter. c (for cleaning lead). a 1279 in presepibus et rackis in nova boveria faciendis MinAc 991/19; 1307 custus bidentum ‥ in j carpentario de novo facienti viiij rackas et emendanti veteres cradeles (Ac. Combe) Doc. Bec 149; 1337 in stipendio i carpentarii faciendi dictam portam et j rakam stabuli v d. Househ. Ac. 209; 1345 item raccos et clayas sufficientes ad fald’ bident’ xviijxx bidenc’ (MinAc Langenhoe) MS Essex RO D/DE1 M22 sched.; 1346 in veteribus presepibus et rekkis in berearia emendandis MinAc Chilbolton; 1391 in stipendio carpentarii reparantis rakkas in iij bercariis MinAc Littleton; 1398 in stipendio j carpentarii reparantis presepes bidencium et emendantis raccas in bercaris ovium matricium MinAc Whitechurch.  b 1322 incrementum redditus ‥ iij d. de Nichole de Tawiere pro incremento redditus pro quadam placea vasti juxta molendinum pro rekka sua assidenda Ac. Man. Wint. (Houghton) ; 1355 pro uno curtilagio et una rakka cum pertinenciis in villa de Briggewater que simul situantur extra portam ejusdem ville ‥ usque ad predict’ curtilagium et rekkam Arch. Bridgw. 175 p. 122; 1403 cum shoppis, cotagiis, gardinis, curtilagiis, rekkis, ac aliis omnimodis pertinenciis Cl 251 m. 8d..  c 1329 de ‥ una raka ferrea ibidem [in plumbaria] pro plumbo mundando KR Ac 467/6/1; 1332 de ‥ raka ferr’ ibidem pro plumbbo mundando Ib. 469/11 m. 1d..
2 racka [ME rak, rakke, racke < AS racca] , (naut.) parrel, parrel-rope. 1295 in quatuor ancquoris iiij cablis cum una polliva et racka cxij s. vj d. (Pipe 140 m. 19) Sea Terms II 87; c1300 in iiij ancoris et iiij cablis a diversis emptis cum una polliva et una racka, cxij s. vj d KR Ac (Works) 501/23 m. 2; 1335 in allocacione facta mercatoribus ementibus lanam domini pro eorum rekkis et cordis Comp. Swith. 243.

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