资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Rack-rent \Rack"-rent`\, n.
   A rent of the full annual value of the tenement, or near it;
   an excessive or unreasonably high rent. --Blackstone.

Rack-rent \Rack"-rent`\, v. t.
   To subject to rack-rent, as a farm or tenant.