Definitions for rack-and-pinion

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rack-and-pinion rack-and-pin·ion

Spelling: [rak-uh n-pin-yuh n]

IPA: /ˈræk ənˈpɪn yən/

Rack-And-Pinion is a 15 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 713 anagrams from letters in rack-and-pinion (--aacdiiknnnopr).

Definitions for rack-and-pinion

noun

1. See under rack1 (def 5a).
2. a framework of bars, wires, or pegs on which articles are arranged or deposited:
3. a fixture containing several tiered shelves, often affixed to a wall:
4. a spreading framework set on a wagon for carrying hay, straw, or the like, in large loads.
5. Pool. a wooden frame of triangular shape within which the balls are arranged before play. the balls so arranged:
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. a cause or state of intense suffering of body or mind.
9. torment; anguish.
10. violent strain.
11. a pair of antlers.
12. Slang. a bed, cot, or bunk:

adjective

1. of or relating to a mechanism in which a rack engages a pinion:

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:

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.

Origin of rack-and-pinion

First recorded in 1900-05

Examples for rack-and-pinion

A rack-and-pinion movement for elevating or lowering the sliding pillar would be useful.

A cheap instrument has an open face and plain frame, with sliding vernier instead of rack-and-pinion motion.

No odour, no teeth-disturbing grind of rack-and-pinion, no trumpeting, with that machine!