Meaning of Rack | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
   uncountable
2. A fast amble.
3. A wreck; destruction.
   obsolete
4. A young rabbit, or its skin.
   obsolete
5. Initialism of risk-aware consensual kink.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
6. A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other.
7. Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
8. A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
   historical
9. A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
10. A bunk.
    especially, slang
11. Sleep.
    broadly, slang, uncountable
12. A distaff.
13. A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it.
14. A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow.
15. A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
16. A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
17. A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
18. A bone of a horse.
    obsolete
19. A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
20. A plastic tray used for holding and moving chips.
21. A woman's breasts.
    slang, vulgar
22. A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.
23. A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
    slang
24. A grate on which bacon is laid.
25. A set with a distributive binary operation whose action on the set is invertible.
26. A thousand dollars, especially if the proceeds are from a crime.
    slang

Equivalents

Examples

“Ay, but I fear you speak upon the rack, / Where men enforced do speak anything.”

“During the troubles of the fifteenth century, a rack was introduced into the Tower, and was occasionally used under the plea of political necessity.”

“Chief Stevens approached my rack and repeatedly ordered me to vacate my rack and report to the working party.”

“By the time I had unpacked my sea bag, made my rack, and finished a good long hot shower, it was late in the evening.”

“I took off my helmet, sat it gently down at the head of my rack on the wooden deck, plopped my butt down on my rack again, and began taking off my stateside assbusting boots.”

“Do I have to do this now? Like, I really need to get some rack.”

“Just beyond that station the first step is encountered and the rack resorted to, taking the line on a gradient of 1 in 9 over a steeply inclined bridge and through a spiral tunnel.”

“The ladder-type Riggenbach rack is the one in use on both systems.”

“I bought a rack of lamb at the butcher's yesterday.”

“The Par quadratum […] Their Use is to bend the Racks of the Loins with a right Motion forward or downward, but when one only acts, it draws the Loins to one Side somewhat downwards.”

“Racks, the bones of a dead horse. Term used by horse-slaughterers.”

“rappel rack”

“abseil rack”

“I used almost a full rack on the second pitch.”

“The winds in the upper region, which move the clouds above, which we call the rack, […] pass without noise.”

“And the night rack came rolling up.”

“Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish ... That which is now a horse ... The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct”

“All goes to rack.”

“Now, sir, you would say a skin is a skin, we say it is a ' whole,' or a 'half,' or a 'quarter,' or a 'rack,' or a 'sucker. Suckers are skins of infant rabbits, and of little value. Eight racks are equal to one whole.”

“The skin of a sucker is white, of a quarter, black and white striped, of a rack all black, and of a best all white.”

“Those would be of different shades of colour according to the time of year at which they were produced, those bred about May-day undergoing no change from their white colour, but from a white rack become a whole skin; […]”

“Rabbit skins are sorted into wholes, halves, quarters, racks, and suckers, or very small skins.”

“If it was my officers wanted a stone jar of rack or a dozen of bottled ale, I might manage 'em, but I'm nowhere with sacks.”

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