To endure stress or strain. An attempt has been made, without an atom of probability, to refer this to the Low-Latin rachetum, thief-bote. See Notes and Queries, 8 S. xi. 365; xii. 72.
1830. After standing the racket he did last winter in the Legislater, and then this ere storm at sea, he need never to fear anything on land or water again in this world.—Seba Smith (‘Major Downing’), ‘My Thirty Years Out of the Senate,’ p. 87 (1860).
1834. Major, will them accounts of the Post-Office stand the racket, or not?—C. A. Davis, ‘Letters of Jack Downing, Major,’ p. 195.
