tocrack

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verb

To crack, fracture, fissure; to break with a cracking sound.

“The mighty warrior all tocracked that heathen's skull with one blow of his mighty club.”

OriginMiddle English tocraken ← Old English cracian ← Proto-West Germanic *krakōn →
First used the early 14th c. to the late 15th c.Scrabble 15
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Meanings

verbtocrack (third-person singular simple present tocracks, present participle tocracking, simple past and past participle tocracked)

present singular third person tocracks · participle present tocracking · participle past tocracked · past tocracked

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo crack, fracture, fissure; to break with a cracking sound.First known use the early 14th c. to the late 15th c.

    The mighty warrior all tocracked that heathen's skull with one blow of his mighty club.

Origin

  1. Proto-West Germanic*krakōn“to crack, crackle, shriek”
  2. Old Englishcracian“to make a cracking sound, crack”
  3. Middle Englishtocraken“to cause a cracking sound by breaking something with a lot of force; to fracture”
  4. Englishtocrack

From Middle English tocraken (“to cause a cracking sound by breaking something with a lot of force; to fracture”), from Old English cracian (“to make a cracking sound, crack”), from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn (“to crack, crackle, shriek”), equivalent to to- + crack.

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