---

• s  affected with, suffering from, or characteristic of rickets
  a rachitic patient

• But these rachitic sinews manfully bore the baggage of war.
• Every year they travel thousands of miles by train, bus, and paddle steamer to play in some 80 of the rachitic towns along the coasts and in the Australian outback.
• The man who brought the Royal Canadian Navy up from rachitic infancy to lusty manhood headed this week across the Atlantic.

• rickety

Quotes

---

• John Steinbeck in Wellington Advertiser
  In 1939, John Steinbeck wrote about those years in his novel, The Grapes of Wrath: "The fields were fruitful. And starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic, and the pustules of pellagra...