Verb

(head)

(obsolete) (crack)

* {{quote-book, year=1870, author=Various, title=Punchinello, Vol. 2, No. 27, October 1, 1870, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=If a man can prove that his upper story is crackt , he can wallop his wife to his heart's content; and if anybody interferes, he can popp him off with a six shooter, and the law will stand to his back. }}

* {{quote-book, year=, author=Edmund Spenser, title=The Faerie Queene Volume 1, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=4 He liues, (quoth he) and boasteth of the fact, Ne yet hath any knight his courage crackt . 6 Where may that treachour then (said he) be found, Or by what meanes may I his footing tract? }}

* {{quote-book, year=1566, author=William Adlington, title=The Golden Asse, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=His wife (having invented a present shift) laughed on her husband, saying: What marchant I pray you have you brought home hither, to fetch away my tub for five pence, for which I poore woman that sit all day alone in my house have beene proffered so often seaven: her husband being well apayed of her words demanded what he was that had bought the tub: Looke (quoth she) he is gone under, to see where it be sound or no: then her lover which was under the tub, began to stirre and rustle himselfe, and because his words might agree to the words of the woman, he sayd: Dame will you have me tell the truth, this tub is rotten and crackt as me seemeth on every side. }}