rakel in Middle English

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{
  "etymology_text": "Related to modern English rake (“a debauchee”).",
  "head_templates": [
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      },
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    }
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  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
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        {
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          "name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
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          "source": "w"
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        {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde.\nFor every wight that has a house to found,\nHe renneth mat the work for to beginne\nWith rakel honde."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "hasty; reckless; rash"
      ],
      "id": "en-rakel-enm-adj-o-R0cxDF",
      "links": [
        [
          "hasty",
          "hasty"
        ],
        [
          "reckless",
          "reckless"
        ],
        [
          "rash",
          "rash"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "rakel"
}

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{
  "etymology_text": "Related to modern English rake (“a debauchee”).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "adjective"
      },
      "expansion": "rakel",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English adjectives",
        "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
        "Middle English lemmas",
        "Pages with 3 entries",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde.\nFor every wight that has a house to found,\nHe renneth mat the work for to beginne\nWith rakel honde."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "hasty; reckless; rash"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hasty",
          "hasty"
        ],
        [
          "reckless",
          "reckless"
        ],
        [
          "rash",
          "rash"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "rakel"
}

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"rakel" meaning in Middle English

Adjective