Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Mus.) An old wind instrument of the double bassoon kind, having ventages but not keys.

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  • noun music An old wind instrument of the double bassoon kind, having ventages but not keys.

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Examples

  • I have seen several bobcats, or canadian lynx both found here in western Washington, I have stood on the deck and had lynx within arms reach. wife was feeding blue jays and the rackett they made pulled the tom in, he was watching the birds and me but was not worried enough to leave without a bird.

    Hello Kitty: Bobcat Takes Down Deer 2009

  • I have seen several bobcats, or canadian lynx both found here in western Washington, I have stood on the deck and had lynx within arms reach. wife was feeding blue jays and the rackett they made pulled the tom in, he was watching the birds and me but was not worried enough to leave without a bird.

    Hello Kitty: Bobcat Takes Down Deer 2009

  • The music shook the very house; the bass rackett vibrated in the walls.

    In the Garden of Iden 1997

  • A fine consort, wanting nothing; there must be cornets and sackbuts, crumhorns and regals, and a great bass rackett — aye, and dulcians, too.

    In the Garden of Iden 1997

  • DA Andrew Thomas and his assistant Lisa somebody all had a BIG rackett going.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • DA Andrew Thomas and his assistant Lisa somebody all had a BIG rackett going.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

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