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rackling

rackling is the present participle and gerund of rackle.

Meaning of rackle

Verb

rackle (third-person singular simple present rackles, present participle rackling, simple past and past participle rackled)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal) To talk noisily; rattle on.

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Questions about rackling

What is rackling the present participle and gerund of?
Rackling is the present participle and gerund of rackle.

Words near rackling in the dictionary

  1. rackles
  2. rackless
  3. Rackley
  4. Rackleys
  5. racklike
  6. rackling
  7. Rackmanism
  8. rackmaster
  9. rackmasters
  10. rackmount
  11. rackmounts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rackling (page history and authors); rackle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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