Thrack

//θɹæk// verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To load or burden. obsolete, transitive

    "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"

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"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"

Etymology

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

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