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  • noun Plural form of rackett.

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Examples

  • They are broad, made like racketts, that they may goe in the snow and not sinke when they runne after the eland or other beast.

    Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673

  • In the morning it was a pleasur to walke, for we could goe without racketts.

    Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673

  • The snow sticks so to our racketts that I believe our shoes weighed 30 pounds, which was a paine, having a burden uppon our backs besides.

    Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673

  • The weather continued so 3 dayes that we needed no racketts more, for the snow hardned much.

    Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673

  • How shall we have strength to make a hole in the snow to lay us downe, seeing we have it not to hale our racketts after us, nor to cutt a litle woad to make a fire to keepe us from the rigour of the cold, which is extreame in those Countreyes in its season.

    Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673

  • My racketts, shoos, and stokens kept me my life; I must needs save them.

    Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673

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