recking

Verb

reck (third-person singular simple present recks, present participle recking, simple past and past participle recked or (obsolete) rought, raught)

1. (archaic, transitive, intransitive (usually with of or for)) To take account of (someone or something); to care for; to consider, to heed, to regard.
   • Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, / Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, / Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine, / Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, / And recks not his own rede.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
2. (archaic, catenative) To want (to do something); to desire to, to be inclined to, to care to.
   • My master is of churlish disposition, / And little recks to find the way to heaven / By doing deeds of hospitality.c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
3. (archaic, intransitive, with-of) To know about, to know of, to be aware of.
   • Little recked the busy multitude in that great smoky town of Blackingham of the solemn glories of the fading woods, with all their mellow brown and crimson foliage; little dreamed they of gorgeous sunsets, purple clouds, roseate mists, and lingering lovely-coloured lights in mountain passes; […]1866, Emma Jane Worboise, “Mr. Armstrong’s Will”, in Sir Julian’s Wife, London: Virtue Brothers and Co., […], →OCLC, page 1
4. (obsolete, transitive) To reckon, to consider, to regard (someone or something) as.
5. (ambitransitive, archaic, dialectal) To concern (someone); to be important or of interest to; to matter.
   • It recks not!
6. (dialectal, obsolete, reflexive) To concern oneself, to trouble oneself.