Meaning of crackt | Babel Free

Definitions

simple past and past participle of crack

form-of, obsolete, participle, past

Examples

“If a man can prove⟳ that his upper story is crackt, he can wallop his wife to his heart's content; and if anybody interferes, he can popp him off with a six shooter, and the law will stand⟳ to his back.”

“4 He liues, (quoth he) and boasteth of the fact, Ne yet hath any knight his courage crackt. 6 Where may that treachour then (said he) be found, Or by what meanes may I his footing tract?”

“His wife (having invented a present⟳ shift) laughed on her husband, saying: What marchant I pray you have⟳ you brought home hither, to fetch⟳ away my tub for five pence, for which I poore woman that sit⟳ all day alone in my house have⟳ beene proffered so often seaven: her husband being well apayed of her words demanded what he was that had bought the tub: Looke (quoth she) he is gone under, to see⟳ where it be sound⟳ or no: then her lover which was under the tub, began to stirre and rustle himselfe, and because his words might agree⟳ to the words of the woman, he sayd: Dame will you have⟳ me tell⟳ the truth, this tub is rotten and crackt as me seemeth on every side.”

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