Definitions for racks

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racks rack

Spelling: [rak]

IPA: /ræk/

Racks is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 66 anagrams from letters in racks (ackrs).

Definitions for racks

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 racks

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

Examples for racks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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