Definition of Rack

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Definition of Rack

Rack

Same as Arrack.

The neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton.

A wreck; destruction.

Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky.

To fly, as vapor or broken clouds.

To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace; -- said of a horse.

A fast amble.

To draw off from the lees or sediment, as wine.

An instrument or frame used for stretching, extending, retaining, or displaying, something.

An engine of torture, consisting of a large frame, upon which the body was gradually stretched until, sometimes, the joints were dislocated; -- formerly used judicially for extorting confessions from criminals or suspected persons.

An instrument for bending a bow.

A grate on which bacon is laid.

A frame or device of various construction for holding, and preventing the waste of, hay, grain, etc., supplied to beasts.

A frame on which articles are deposited for keeping or arranged for display; as, a clothes rack; a bottle rack, etc.

A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes; -- called also rack block. Also, a frame to hold shot.

A frame or table on which ores are separated or washed.

A frame fitted to a wagon for carrying hay, straw, or grain on the stalk, or other bulky loads.

A distaff.

A bar with teeth on its face, or edge, to work with those of a wheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive it or be driven by it.

That which is extorted; exaction.

To extend by the application of force; to stretch or strain; specifically, to stretch on the rack or wheel; to torture by an engine which strains the limbs and pulls the joints.

To torment; to torture; to affect with extreme pain or anguish.

To stretch or strain, in a figurative sense; hence, to harass, or oppress by extortion.

To wash on a rack, as metals or ore.

To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.

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Rack Quotations

My kitchen's pink, like skin-tone pink, and I lowered my spice rack so it's eye level - it's true! - and my phone, so I can reach it when I fall, it's right there.
Amy Sedaris

In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
Agnes Smedley

The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth.
Rose Schneiderman

And you know, the baby boomers are getting older, and those off the rack clothes are just not fitting right any longer, and so, tailor-made suits are coming back into fashion.
Amy Irving

Gleason used to rack balls for me when he was a kid in Brooklyn and in Long Island.
Minnesota Fats

You want to look fashionable and put-together, not like you hit every sale rack this season.
Tommy Hilfiger

Rack Translations

rack in German is Gestell, Folterbank, Zahnstange, Gestell
rack in Latin is torqueo
rack in Spanish is perchero

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