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rack
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Noun
  • a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately
  • a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body
  • a support for displaying various articles
    • the newspapers were arranged on a rack
  • an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims
  • the destruction or collapse of something
    • wrack and ruin
  • rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton
  • framework for holding objects
Verb
  • torture on the rack
  • seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block
  • work on a rack
    • rack leather
  • torment emotionally or mentally
  • draw off from the lees
    • rack wine
  • fly in high wind
  • run before a gale
  • obtain by coercion or intimidation
    • They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss
    • They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him
  • put on a rack and pinion
    • rack a camera
  • stretch to the limits
    • rack one's brains
  • go at a rack
    • the horses single-footed
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