thrack

English

Etymology

From Middle English *threkken, thrucchen, from Old English þryccan (“to press, oppress, afflict”). More at thrutch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /θɹæk/

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• Rhymes: -æk

Verb

thrack (third-person singular simple present thracks, present participle thracking, simple past and past participle thracked)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To load or burden.
   • 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:

     But certainly we shall one day find , that the strait gate is too narrow for any man to come bustling in , thrack'd with great possessions, and greater corruptions

References

• “thrack”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Kracht