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ˈrack-ˌrenter
1. One who pays rack-rent.
1680Spirit of Popery 45 If they were Rack-renters. 1733Tull Horse-hoeing Husb. Pref. 6 'Tis a publick Calamity, that the Lands of a Country must be all or mostly in the Hands of Rack-Renters, whose Interest it is..that they never may be improv'd. 1807Vancouver Agric. Devon (1813) 224 These meadows the rack renters are bound to dress after every third crop of hay. 1826Cobbett Rur. Rides (1885) II. 236 The farmers were real yeomen, and not miserable rack-renters.
2. One who exacts rack-rent.
1880Times 23 Oct. 6/5 Not..one [landlord] in 500 [will] be found to merit the name of ‘rack-renter’. |
