wrack

• But the stylebook says: “To wrack means the same as to rack, but rack is preferred,” and the use of wrack normally is confined to the phrase wrack and ruin.
• In the magazine wrack was a commemorative edition of some publication with a portrait of Barack Obama on the cover. —  The Reality Check
• Give it wrack, and it will be growing corn for evermore They tell me he was a great farmer for all he was laird, and never happier than at his own plough tail, breaking a colt to work in chains; and he it was who improved the stock in cattle and horse in our glens, for he would be aye telling the young farmers, "Gie the quey calves plenty o' milk, as much as they'll lash into themselves. —  The McBrides A Romance of Arran
• Meanwhile the wind falls with sundown; and weary and ignorant of the way we glide on to the Cyclopes' coast There lies a harbour large and unstirred by the winds' [571-604]entrance; but nigh it Aetna thunders awfully in wrack, and ever and again hurls a black cloud into the sky, smoking with boiling pitch and embers white hot, and heaves balls of flame flickering up to the stars: ever and again vomits out on high crags from the torn entrails of the mountain, tosses up masses of molten rock with a groan, and boils forth from the bottom. —  The Aeneid of Virgil
• Elsewhere brown sea wrack was plainly visible just awash. —  Priscilla's Spies

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