Racca

Old English Dictionary Entry

Racca

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: an; Related words:

Definitions

1 racca

m. A cord, which forms part of the rigging of a ship; cf. Icel. rakki the ring by which the sailyard moves round the mast :-- Racca anguina (cf. cops anguina, 56, 56 : bogen streng anguina, 35, 26. The word occurs among a list of names for ropes under the heading de nave et partibus ejus), Wrt. Voc. i. 63, 63. racca

Runic Inscription

ᚱᚪᚳᚳᚪ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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