A double-reed woodwind instrument of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, with a squat cylindrical body in which nine parallel bores are drilled lengthwise to form a continuous undulating tube. Sometimes with preceding modifying word, indicating the size or pitch of the instrument, as "bass rackett", "tenor rackett", etc.

Originally and usually rankett. An organ stop of the regal type, with short resonators and a soft tone, originally popular in the 16th century, but now little used.