rack-rent

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

RACK'-RENT, noun An annual rent of the full value of the tenement or near it. RACK'-RENTED, adjective Subjected to the payment of rack-rent RACK'-RENTER, noun One that is subjected to pay rack-rent
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