Racca

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - racca

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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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
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