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語源 1

From 中期英語 rakyl (“chain”), apparently related to Old Frisian rakels (“chain”), French racle ("the iron ring of a door" (from a Germanic source)), and also 中期英語 rakente, from 古期英語 racente (“chain, fetter”). More at rackan.

別の表記

• rakkill (Scotland)

名詞

rackle (countable and uncountable, plural rackles)

1. (countable, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A chain.
2. (uncountable, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Noisy talk.

動詞

rackle (third-person singular simple present rackles, present participle rackling, simple past and past participle rackled)

1. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To talk noisily; rattle on.

語源 2

Uncertain. Probably from rack (“to drive; move; go forward rapidly”), alteration of 中期英語 reken (“to drive; move; tend”), from Old Norse reka, vreka (“to drive; drift; toss”) +‎ -le (“tending or prone to”). Related to Icelandic reka, Swedish vräka, Danish vrage, English wrack.

形容詞

rackle (comparative more rackle, superlative most rackle)

1. Of a person: rash, impetuous, reckless
2. Rough, crude
3. Sturdy in old age

アナグラム

• Clarke, calker, lacker, recalk