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English
Etymology
From Middle English *threkken, thrucchen, from Old English þryccan (“to press, oppress, afflict”). More at thrutch.
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Verb
thrack (third-person singular simple present thracks, present participle thracking, simple past and past participle thracked)
- (obsolete, transitive) To load or burden.
1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: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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