Rack
Definition of Rack
Pronunciation: răkt n. | 1. | Same as Arrack. | | 1. | The neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton. | | 1. | A wreck; destruction. | | 1. | Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky. | v. i. | 1. | To fly, as vapor or broken clouds. | | 1. | To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace; - said of a horse. | n. | 1. | A fast amble. | v. t. | 1. | To draw off from the lees or sediment, as wine. | n. | 1. | An instrument or frame used for stretching, extending, retaining, or displaying, something. | | 2. | (Naut.) An instrument for bending a bow. | | 2. | (Mech.) 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. | | 3. | That which is extorted; exaction.Mangle rack | (Mach.) See under Mangle. n. |
Rack block | f - | (Naut.) See def. 1 (f), above. |
| v. t. | 1. | 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. | | 2. | To torment; to torture; to affect with extreme pain or anguish. | | 3. | To stretch or strain, in a figurative sense; hence, to harass, or oppress by extortion. | | 4. | (Mining) To wash on a rack, as metals or ore. | | 5. | (Naut.) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc. |
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