Definitions for racking

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racking rack·ing

Spelling: [rak-ing]

IPA: /ˈræk ɪŋ/

Racking is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 161 anagrams from letters in racking (acgiknr).

Definitions for racking

noun

1. the stepping back of the ends of courses successively from bottom to top in an unfinished wall to facilitate resumption of work or bonding with an intersecting wall.
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:
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.

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.
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 racking

First recorded in 1890-95; rack¹ + -ing¹

Examples for racking

I walked home, racking my brains to find the answer to this new conundrum.

So he fetched a sigh that sounded as if 'twas racking loose the foundations and commenced.

After racking up seven Hopalong Cassidy movies, Mitchum got himself an RKO contract for $350.

Not coincidentally, his weekly is basking in the spotlight—and racking up huge sales—while performing this “service.”

And though Republicans are racking up minority leaders at the national level, it continues to face a fundamental obstacle.

Everyone wanted to keep Winston on the field, racking up wins and alumni donations.

Are you racking your brain for some way of spoiling my little plans?

Charles had a racking headache, consequent on motoring before food.

The torment was far too racking for such futile fashion of lamentation.

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