Definitions for rack

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Spelling: [rak]

IPA: /ræk/

Rack is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in rack (ackr).

Definitions for rack

noun

1. a framework of bars, wires, or pegs on which articles are arranged or deposited:
2. a fixture containing several tiered shelves, often affixed to a wall:
3. a spreading framework set on a wagon for carrying hay, straw, or the like, in large loads.
4. Pool. a wooden frame of triangular shape within which the balls are arranged before play. the balls so arranged:
5. Machinery. a bar, with teeth on one of its sides, adapted to engage with the teeth of a pinion (rack and pinion) or the like, as for converting circular into rectilinear motion or vice versa. a bar having a series of notches engaging with a pawl or the like.
6. a former instrument of torture consisting of a framework on which a victim was tied, often spread-eagled, by the wrists and ankles, to be slowly stretched by spreading the parts of the framework.
7. a cause or state of intense suffering of body or mind.
8. torment; anguish.
9. violent strain.
10. a pair of antlers.
11. Slang. a bed, cot, or bunk:
12. ruin or destruction; wrack.
13. the fast pace of a horse in which the legs move in lateral pairs but not simultaneously.
14. Also called cloud rack. a group of drifting clouds.
15. the neck portion of mutton, pork, or veal.
16. the rib section of a foresaddle of lamb, mutton, or sometimes veal.

Idioms

1. go to rack and ruin, to decay, decline, or become destroyed:

Verb phrases

1. rack out, Slang. to go to bed; go to sleep:
2. rack up, Pool. to put (the balls) in a rack. Informal. to tally, accumulate, or amass as an achievement or score:
3. rack up, Slang. to wreck, especially a vehicle.

verb (used with object)

1. to torture; distress acutely; torment:
2. to strain in mental effort:
3. to strain by physical force or violence.
4. to strain beyond what is normal or usual.
5. to stretch the body of (a person) in torture by means of a rack.
6. Nautical. to seize (two ropes) together side by side.
7. to draw off (wine, cider, etc.) from the lees.

verb (used without object)

1. (of horses) to move in a rack.
2. to drive or move, especially before the wind.

Origin of rack

1250-1300; Middle English rakke, rekke (noun) Middle Dutch rac, rec, recke; compare Middle Low German reck, German Reck

Examples for rack

In the bottom of the pan is a rack upon which the meat may rest.

They fought for bread, as horses when there is no hay in the rack.

Looking for a place to get a salad, we pass a gift shop with a rack of dresses near the doorway.

He went across to the hotel, tied the gelding at the rack, and sat down on the veranda.

He went into Mr. Galloway's room, and brought forth the three letters from the rack.

Jenny and Ichabod rack their brains before eventually deciding to hunt for the missing Franklin documents at the archives.

He put them in glamorous gowns, yes, but also encouraged them to buy trendier ready-to-wear labels off the rack.

The clever crooks managed to rack up $2 million in profits over a year, Ares said.

Whereas other brands purchase their barrels from big producers more or less off the rack, The Macallan starts in the forest.

Were it not better that they should die on the field than by the rack?