rack-rent

Another common term is found in the word Head-rent, of which Gladstonians know no more than of Rack-rent.

I won't ask a rack rent, I promise you, and I suppose I could distrain on these tea things and the kettle if it were not paid up.

Will they rack-rent their tenants in such a manner as to deprive them of the means of improving the estate?

There is the same system of rack-rent in the one as in the other, and the same uncertainty in the rate of the Government demand.

He and his successors contracted to pay a full or rack-rent of xijd.