rack

Plural: racks

Noun

• framework for holding objects
• rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton
• the destruction or collapse of something
  • "wrack and ruin"
• an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims
• a support for displaying various articles
  • "the newspapers were arranged on a rack"
• a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body
• a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately
• A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other
• Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
• A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
• A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
• A bunk.
• Sleep.
• A distaff.
• A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it.
• A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow.
• A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
• A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
• A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
• A bone of a horse.
• A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
• A plastic tray used for holding and moving chips.
• A woman's breasts.
• A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.
• A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
• A grate on which bacon is laid.
• A set with a distributive binary operation whose result is unique.
• A thousand dollars, especially if the proceeds are from a crime.
• Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
• A fast amble.
• A wreck; destruction.
• A young rabbit, or its skin.
• Alternative form of arak.

Verb

Verb Forms: racked, racking, racks

• To place or arrange something in a frame or on shelves.
• go at a rack
• stretch to the limits
  • "rack one's brains"
• put on a rack and pinion
  • "rack a camera"
• obtain by coercion or intimidation
• run before a gale
• fly in high wind
• draw off from the lees
  • "rack wine"
• torment emotionally or mentally
• work on a rack
  • "rack leather"
• seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block
• torture on the rack
• To place in or hang on a rack.
• To torture (someone) on the rack.
• To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
• To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
• To alternately concatenate two words to magical effect.
• To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
• To strike in the testicles.
• To shoplift (especially in a megastore), often by taking off of a rack.
• To take that which belongs to another, without regard of right or permission.
• To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
• To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
• To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
• To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
• To tend to shear a structure (that is, force it to bend, lean, or move in different directions at different points).
• To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.
• To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.
• To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
• To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.

Examples

• abseil rack
• After drawing, he tried to RACK his letters in a way that revealed potential words.
• He racked three boxes of gum!
• I bought a rack of lamb at the butcher's yesterday.
• I used almost a full rack on the second pitch.
• Post-and-lintel construction racks easily.
• rappel rack

Synonyms

excruciate, extort, gouge, scud, single-foot, squeeze, stand, torment, torture, wheel, wrack, wring, ache, afflict, aggrieve, agonize, anguish, assets, babylons, badonkers, balloons, bangers, baps, bazongas, bazookas, bazoombas, bazooms, bewbs, booba, boobage, boobers, boobies, boobs, boosies, bosom, breast [⇒ thesaurus]s, breasticles, bristols, bubby, bubs, bust, calcium cannons, cans, cantaloupes, casabas, charlies, chebs, chest melons, chesticles, chichis, coconuts, dere, diddy, ding-dongs, dirty pillows, double Ds, dugs, front bumpers, frontage, funbags, gazongas, girls, globes, grapefruits, headlights, honkers, hooters, hurt, irritate, itty-bittys, jahoobies, jigglies, jubblies, jugs, knockers, lady lumps, love pillows, luggage rack, mammaries, mammary glands, mammas, maracas, megaboobs, melons, milk jugs, milkbags, milkers, mommy milkers, money makers, mountain [⇒ thesaurus]s, norks, pair, pang, paps, personality, pine, puppies, rack, rack block, rack up, shear, steal, sweater puppies, tatas, teats, threepenny bits, throe, tiddies, tits, titters, titties, top bollocks, torpedos, tracts of land, twin peaks, twins, udders, waps, yabos, zoomers

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