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Definition of Rack

[n.] - Same as Arrack.
[n.] - The neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton.
[n.] - A wreck; destruction.
[n.] - Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky.
[v. i.] - To fly, as vapor or broken clouds.
[v.] - To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace; -- said of a horse.
[n.] - A fast amble.
[v. t.] - To draw off from the lees or sediment, as wine.
[a.] - An instrument or frame used for stretching, extending, retaining, or displaying, something.
[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.
[a.] - An instrument for bending a bow.
[a.] - A grate on which bacon is laid.
[a.] - A frame or device of various construction for holding, and preventing the waste of, hay, grain, etc., supplied to beasts.
[a.] - A frame on which articles are deposited for keeping or arranged for display; as, a clothes rack; a bottle rack, etc.
[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.
[a.] - A frame or table on which ores are separated or washed.
[a.] - A frame fitted to a wagon for carrying hay, straw, or grain on the stalk, or other bulky loads.
[a.] - A distaff.
[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.
[a.] - That which is extorted; exaction.
[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.
[v. t.] - To torment; to torture; to affect with extreme pain or anguish.
[v. t.] - To stretch or strain, in a figurative sense; hence, to harass, or oppress by extortion.
[v. t.] - To wash on a rack, as metals or ore.
[v. t.] - To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.