Rack

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A framework or stand in or on which to hold, hang, or display various articles.
  • noun. A triangular frame for arranging billiard or pool balls at the start of a game.
  • noun. A receptacle for livestock feed.
  • noun. A frame for holding bombs in an aircraft.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A bunk or bed.
  • noun. Sleep.
  • noun. A toothed bar that meshes with a gearwheel, pinion, or other toothed machine part.
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  • noun. A state of intense anguish.
  • noun. A cause of intense anguish.
  • noun. An instrument of torture on which the victim's body was stretched.
  • noun. A pair of antlers.
  • noun. A woman's breasts.
  • transitive verb. To place (billiard balls, for example) in a rack.
  • transitive verb. To cause great physical or mental suffering to: synonym: afflict.
  • transitive verb. To torture by means of the rack.
  • phrasal verb. To go to sleep or get some sleep.
  • phrasal verb. To accumulate or score.
  • idiom. (off the rack) Ready-made. Used of clothing.
  • idiom. (on the rack) Under great stress.
  • idiom. (rack (one's) brains/brain) To try hard to remember or think of something.
  • noun. A fast, flashy, four-beat gait of a horse in which each foot touches the ground separately and at equal intervals.
  • intransitive verb. To go or move at a rack.
  • transitive verb. To drain (wine or cider) from the dregs.
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  • noun. A thin mass of wind-driven clouds.
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  • noun. A wholesale rib cut of lamb or veal between the shoulder and the loin.
  • noun. A retail rib cut of lamb or veal, prepared for roasting or for rib chops.
  • noun. The neck and upper spine of mutton, pork, or veal.
  • noun. undefined
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.
  • To drive, as flying clouds.
  • To stretch; stretch out; strain by force or violence; extend by stretching or straining.
  • To strain so as to rend; wrench by strain or jar; rend; disintegrate; disjoint: as, a racking cough; to rack a ship to pieces by slanting shot.
  • To torture by violent stretching; stretch on a frame by means of a windlass; subject to the punishment of the rack. See rack, n., 2 .
  • Hence To put in torment; affect with great pain or distress; torture in anyway; disturb violently.
  • To strain with anxiety, eagerness, curiosity, or the like; subject to strenuous effort or intense feeling; worry; agitate: as, to rack one's invention or memory.
  • To stretch or draw out of normal condition or relation; strain beyond measure or propriety; wrest; warp; distort; exaggerate; overstrain: chiefly in figurative uses.
  • To exact or obtain by rapacity; get or gain in excess or wrongfully. See rack-rent.
  • To subject to extortion; practise rapacity upon; oppress by exaction.
  • In mining, to wash on the rack. See rack, n., 5 .
  • To place on or in a rack or frame made for the purpose, either for storage or for temporary need, as for draining, drying, or the like.
  • To form into or as if into a rack or grating; give the appearance of a rack to.
  • Nautical, to seize together with cross-turns, as two ropes.
  • noun. A distaff; a rock.
  • To move with the gait called a rack.
  • noun. A bar.
  • Word Usage
    "As of version 0.9.4 (released this week), racksh uses Bryan Helmkamp's rack-test to simulate HTTP requests to your Rack application via the $rack variable."
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