| Rack |
n. |
Same as Arrack. |
| Rack |
n. |
The neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton. |
| Rack |
n. |
A wreck; destruction. |
| Rack |
n. |
Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky. |
| Rack |
v. i. |
To fly, as vapor or broken clouds. |
| Rack |
v. |
To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace;
said of a horse. |
| Rack |
n. |
A fast amble. |
| Rack |
v. t. |
To draw off from the lees or sediment, as wine. |
| Rack |
a. |
An instrument or frame used for stretching, extending, retaining, or displaying, something. |
| Rack |
a. |
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. |
| Rack |
a. |
An instrument for bending a bow. |
| Rack |
a. |
A grate on which bacon is laid. |
| Rack |
a. |
A frame or device of various construction for holding, and preventing the waste of, hay, grain, etc., supplied to beasts. |
| Rack |
a. |
A frame on which articles are deposited for keeping or arranged for display; as, a clothes rack; a bottle rack, etc. |
| Rack |
a. |
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. |
| Rack |
a. |
A frame or table on which ores are separated or washed. |
| Rack |
a. |
A frame fitted to a wagon for carrying hay, straw, or grain on the stalk, or other bulky loads. |
| Rack |
a. |
A distaff. |
| Rack |
a. |
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. |
| Rack |
a. |
That which is extorted; exaction. |
| Rack |
v. t. |
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. |
| Rack |
v. t. |
To torment; to torture; to affect with extreme pain or anguish. |
| Rack |
v. t. |
To stretch or strain, in a figurative sense; hence, to harass, or oppress by extortion. |
| Rack |
v. t. |
To wash on a rack, as metals or ore. |
| Rack |
v. t. |
To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc. |
| Rack-rent |
n. |
A rent of the full annual value of the tenement, or near it; an excessive or unreasonably high rent. |
| Rack-rent |
v. t. |
To subject to rack-rent, as a farm or tenant. |
| Rack-renter |
n. |
One who is subjected to paying rack-rent. |
| Rack-renter |
n. |
One who exacts rack-rent. |
| Rackabones |
n. |
A very lean animal, esp. a horse. |
| Rackarock |
n. |
A Sprengel explosive consisting of potassium chlorate and mono-nitrobenzene. |
| Racked |
imp. & p. p. |
of Rack |
| Racker |
n. |
One who racks. |
| Racker |
n. |
A horse that has a racking gait. |
| Racket |
n. |
A scheme, dodge, trick, or the like; something taking place considered as exciting, trying, unusual, or the like; also, such occurrence considered as an ordeal; as, to work a racket; to stand upon the racket. |
| Racket |
n. |
A thin strip of wood, having the ends brought together, forming a somewhat elliptical hoop, across which a network of catgut or cord is stretched. It is furnished with a handle, and is used for catching or striking a ball in tennis and similar games. |
| Racket |
n. |
A variety of the game of tennis played with peculiar long-handled rackets;
chiefly in the plural. |
| Racket |
n. |
A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood. |
| Racket |
n. |
A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to enable him to step on marshy or soft ground. |
| Racket |
v. t. |
To strike with, or as with, a racket. |
| Racket |
n. |
Confused, clattering noise; din; noisy talk or sport. |
| Racket |
n. |
A carouse; any reckless dissipation. |
| Racket |
v. i. |
To make a confused noise or racket. |
| Racket |
v. i. |
To engage in noisy sport; to frolic. |
| Racket |
v. i. |
To carouse or engage in dissipation. |
| Racket-tail |
n. |
Any one of several species of humming birds of the genus Steganura, having two of the tail feathers very long and racket-shaped. |
| Racket-tailed |
a. |
Having long and spatulate, or racket-shaped, tail feathers. |
| Racketed |
imp. & p. p. |
of Racket |
| Racketer |
n. |
One who makes, or engages in, a racket. |
| Racketing |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Racket |
| Rackett |
n. |
An old wind instrument of the double bassoon kind, having ventages but not keys. |
| Rackety |
a. |
Making a tumultuous noise. |
| Racking |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Rack |
| Racking |
n. |
Spun yarn used in racking ropes. |
| Racktail |
n. |
An arm attached to a swinging notched arc or rack, to let off the striking mechanism of a repeating clock. |
| Rackwork |
n. |
Any mechanism having a rack, as a rack and pinion. |
