crackers

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NRW said Samuel deliberately used a large spinning bait with a barbed treble hook, and when the fish was examined by the officer the lure was still lodged deep in its throat and gill rackers.

From BBC • Jul. 18, 2024

The dispute has raged ever since Shakespeare's pedant Holofernes railed against the "rackers of orthography" in Love's Labour's Lost.

From Time Magazine Archive

I rode a bay mare, bought in Albany, yet a beauty, and 503 doubtless the only decent horseflesh in all that town of rusty rackers and patroons' sorry hacks.

From Cardigan by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

In our Southern States rackers are bred for, and the instinct is confirmed by training.

From Patroclus and Penelope A Chat in the Saddle by Dodge, Theodore Ayrault