rack-rent
noun
Also rack rent rent equal to or nearly equal to the full annual value of a property.
rack-renter
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a word derived from
rack-rent.
Example Sentences
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He was a rack-renter of the first water.
From The Poor Scholar Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton
But he is only just and fair, which, in the ethics of Irish agrarianism, is equivalent to being a rack-renter and a tyrant.
From The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent by Sir Home Gordon, Bart.
