WRACKING

Verb

wracking

present participle of wrack

Anagrams

• crawking

Source: Wiktionary


WRACK

Wrack, n.

Definition: A thin, flying cloud; a rack.

Wrack, v. t.

Definition: To rack; to torment. [R.]

Wrack, n. Etym: [OE. wrak wreck. See Wreck.]

1. Wreck; ruin; destruction. [Obs.] Chaucer. "A world devote to universal wrack." Milton. wrack and ruin

2. Any marine vegetation cast up on the shore, especially plants of the genera Fucus, Laminaria, and Zostera, which are most abundant on northern shores.

3. (Bot.)

Definition: Coarse seaweed of any kind. Wrack grass, or Grass wrack (Bot.), eelgrass.

Wrack, v. t.

Definition: To wreck. [Obs.] Dryden.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’


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