WRACKS

Noun

wracks

plural of wrack

Verb

wracks

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wrack

Anagrams

• crawks

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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