rackle

American  

[rak-uhl] / ˈræk əl /

adjective

Chiefly Scot.

1. headstrong; rash.

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Etymology

Origin of rackle

1250–1300; Middle English; perhaps variant of rattle ¹; racket ¹

Example Sentences

I mean, just look: The left tackle is a right tackle, the left guard is a tackle, the center is a guard, the right guard is a center, and the right rackle is a guard.

From Chicago Tribune

The paroxysm of tears swept Neal as the Atlantic waves sweep foaming and furious over Rackle Roy.

From Project Gutenberg

Then', at the far end of the bay, he saw men's figures moving, near the Black Rock, among the boats hauled up on the shore in the creek from which he and Maurice and Una had set out to fish on Rackle Roy.

From Project Gutenberg

I go back in it to my own country—to places familiar to me in boyhood as the mountains and bays of Mayo are now; to days very long ago, when I caught cuddings and lithe off the Black Rock or Rackle Roy and learned to swim in the Blue Pool at Port Ballintrae.

From Project Gutenberg

We're off for a day's fishing to Rackle Roy.

From Project Gutenberg