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rack 1 R0007200 (răk)n.1. a. A framework or stand in or on which to hold, hang, or display various articles: a trophy rack; a rack for baseball bats in the dugout; a drying rack for laundry.b. Games A triangular frame for arranging billiard or pool balls at the start of a game.c. A receptacle for livestock feed.d. A frame for holding bombs in an aircraft.2. Slang a. A bunk or bed.b. Sleep: tried to get some rack.3. A toothed bar that meshes with a gearwheel, pinion, or other toothed machine part.4. a. A state of intense anguish.b. A cause of intense anguish.5. An instrument of torture on which the victim's body was stretched.6. A pair of antlers.7. Vulgar Slang A woman's breasts.tr.v. racked, rack·ing, racks 1. To place (billiard balls, for example) in a rack.2. also wrack To cause great physical or mental suffering to: Pain racked his entire body. See Synonyms at afflict.3. To torture by means of the rack.Phrasal Verbs: rack out Slang To go to sleep or get some sleep. rack up Informal To accumulate or score: rack up points.Idioms: off the rack Ready-made. Used of clothing. on the rack Under great stress. rack (one's) brains/brain To try hard to remember or think of something.
[Middle English rakke, probably from Middle Dutch rec, framework; see reg- in Indo-European roots.]
rack′er n.
rack 2 R0007200 (răk)n. A fast, flashy, four-beat gait of a horse in which each foot touches the ground separately and at equal intervals.intr.v. racked, rack·ing, racks To go or move at a rack.
[Origin unknown.]
rack 3 also wrack R0007200 (răk)n. A thin mass of wind-driven clouds.
[Middle English rak, probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Swedish rak, wreckage.]
rack 4 R0007200 (răk)n. Variant of wrack1.
rack 5 R0007200 (răk)n. & v. Variant of wrack2.
rack 6 R0007200 (răk)tr.v. racked, rack·ing, racks To drain (wine or cider) from the dregs.
[Middle English rakken, from Old Provençal arracar, from raca, stems and husks of grapes.]
rack 7 R0007200 (răk)n.1. a. A wholesale rib cut of lamb or veal between the shoulder and the loin.b. A retail rib cut of lamb or veal, prepared for roasting or for rib chops.2. The neck and upper spine of mutton, pork, or veal.
[Probably from rack.]Racket, Racquet, Racquette, Roquet or Racker an assembly of high society at a private house, 1745; a popular, noisy or confused group; also the noise made by such a group.Examples: racquet of mirth and war, 1822; racket of society, 1886.Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | racker - an attendant who puts pool or billiard balls into a rackattendant, attender, tender - someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another |
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