Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.538

1603.—“We taking the But-ends of Pikes and Halberts and Faggot-sticks, drave them into a *Racke-house*.”—*E. Scot, in Purchas*, i. 184.