wrack1
¦
verb variant spelling of
rack1,
rack4.
Usage
On the complicated relationship between
wrack and
rack, see
usage at
rack1.
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wrack2
¦ noun a coarse brown seaweed which grows on the shoreline, often with air bladders providing buoyancy. [Several species belonging to Fucus and other genera.]
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wrack3
(also rack)
¦ noun a mass of high, thick, fast-moving cloud.
Origin
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wrack4
¦ noun archaic or dialect a shipwreck.
?wreckage.
Origin