10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RACK-RENTER»
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Poems by a Scotch Dry Goods Clerk [of Boston, Mass., a ...
The. Devil. *2£. the. Rack-Renter. A SATIRE UPON A SKYE LANDLORD. As my
friend Smith passed Colintogle, He chanced to meet His Grace, the Devil, / „ Who,
mounted on a Clydesdale cpai'Iiii(j, SyxasveLit. Seemed for some scenes of ...
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The London encyclopaedia: or Universal dictionary of ...
rekken, to extend, Rack'-renter. j draw out, stretch ; Goth, reckia. An engine of
torture by stretching the limbs ; any instrument of extension ; a trail of clouds as
driven by the wind : Shakspeare uses it for wreck: torment; torture: to rack is to
stream ...
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v.n.~\ Belg. rakke, from Rack'-rent, n. t. > rekken, to extend, Rack'-renter. J draw
out, stretch ; Goth, reckia. An engine of torture by stretching the limbs; any
instrument of extension; a trail of clouds as driven by the wind : Shakspeare uses
it for ...
Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington),
1839
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Belg. rakke, from Rack'-rent, n. i. yrekkcn, to extend, Rack'-renter. j draw out,
stretch ; Goth, rcckia. An engine of torture by stretching the limbs; any instrument
of extension; a trail of clouds as driven by the wind : Shakspeare uses it for wreck
...
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Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the ...
Rack-renter, n.s. [rack and renter.] One who pays the "uttermost rent. — This
influences not the yearly rent of the land, which the rack- renter or under-tenant
pays. Locke. RACLIA, an island in the Grecian Archipelago, inhabited by monks.
Lod.
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Encyclopaedia Perthensis; or, Universal dictionary of Knowledge
Rack-renter, n. j. [rack and renter.] One who pays the uttermost rent. — This
influences not the yearly rent of the land, which the rack- renter or uiider-tenant
pays. Locke. □ RACLIA, an illandin the Grecian Archipelago, inhabited by monks
. Lon.
Encyclopaedia Perthensis,
1806
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Encyclopaedia Londinensis, or, Universal dictionary of arts, ...
RACK-RENTER, *. One who pays the uttermost rent. — Though this be a quarter
of his yearly income, and the publick tax takes away one hundred; yet this
influences not the yearly rent of the land, which the rack-renter or undertenant
pays.
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Hansard's Parliamentary Debates
I think the result of the inquiry of the Commission has been to show that every
landlord in the Highlands — even the Duke of Sutherland — is a rack-renter ; and
I am afraid that in the case of many of the crofters, if they had their holdings for ...
Great Britain. Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard,
1891
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Annuities on Lives, and for Limited Terms of Years, ...
... under a less than rack Rent, and would take upon him to pay the other
Charges of Taxes, &c. which the Rack- renter had nothing to do with, he stiould
certainly be deemed Purchaser of an Annuity equal to the Rack-rent before-
mentioned, ...
... I suppose I must go and try to pry him out. So "id-bye for the present. Roland
King. PRO PHI-ITS OF EVIL—The wages of sin. HE man who supplied the
Inquisition with machinery. was. the. original. rack-renter. b. LIFE AT MT.
DESERT.
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“Baron Springburn”, with its Dickensian ring of a thoroughly disreputable Victorian rack-renter, would suit him nicely. My husband was born in Springburn, so the ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Sep 09»