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[1] rakki (m.) ‘parrel’: A mast-ring, originally a loop of rope, later a ring around the mast which allowed the sail-yard to move around the mast (Falk 1912, 61; Jesch 2001a, 162 n. 72). Cf. HHundI 49/3, where rakki is used in a kenning for ‘ship’.