Rack | Meaning of rack

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rack (noun)
A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other.

rack (noun)
Any of various kinds of frame for holding clothes, bottles, animal fodder, mined ore, shot on a vessel, etc.

rack (noun)
A distaff.

rack (noun)
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.

rack (noun)
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.

rack (noun)
A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.

rack (noun)
A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.

rack (noun)
A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).

rack (noun)
A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
I bought a rack of lamb at the butcher's yesterday.

rack (noun)
A grate on which bacon is laid.

rack (verb)
To place in or hang on a rack.

rack (verb)
To torture (someone) on the rack.

rack (verb)
To cause (someone) to suffer pain.

rack (verb)
To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.

rack (verb)
To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.

rack (verb)
To stretch a person's joints.

rack (verb)
To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.

rack (verb)
To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.

rack (noun)
Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.

rack (noun)
A fast amble.

rack (noun)
A young rabbit.

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January 24, 2019

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