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Rack

noun

1.

Framework for holding objects.

2.

Rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton.

3.

The destruction or collapse of something. Synonym: wrack.

4.

An instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims. Synonym: wheel.

5.

A support for displaying various articles. Synonym: stand.

6.

A form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body.

7.

A rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately. Synonym: single-foot.

verb

(past & past part. racked; pres. part. racking)

1.

Go at a rack. Synonym: single-foot.

2.

Stretch to the limits.

3.

Put on a rack and pinion.

4.

Obtain by coercion or intimidation. Synonyms: extort, gouge, squeeze, wring. "They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him"

5.

Run before a gale. Synonym: scud.

6.

Fly in high wind.

7.

Draw off from the lees.

8.

Torment emotionally or mentally. Synonyms: excruciate, torment, torture.

9.

Work on a rack.

10.

Seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block.

11.

Torture on the rack.

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"Rack" Quotes from Famous Books

... man on the religious opinions of his time. Jacobi, by a flash of inspiration, divined that he had confused Moliere with Voltaire, and assuming a manner of extreme suavity, he put his victim on the rack, and tortured him with affected explanations and interrogations, until Madeleine was in a manner forced to interrupt and end the scene. But even when the senator was not to be lured into a trap, he could not escape assault. The baron in such a case would cross the lines and attack ...

— Democracy An American Novel • Henry Adams

... ghost: O, let him pass! he hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world ...

— Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson • Robert Louis Stevenson

... resolute a follower and henchman of the Douglas was sitting fearless among you, his master and comrades could be at no great distance—how far his intentions could be friendly to you, I must leave it to yourself to judge; only believe me thus far, that the rack, pulley, or pincers, would not have compelled me to act the informer, or adviser, in a quarrel wherein I have little or no share, if I had not been desirous of fixing the belief upon you, that you are dealing with a ...

— Waverley Volume XII • Sir Walter Scott

... of torture were carefully drawn out: the prisoner was stripped naked, the hair cut off, and the body then laid on the rack and bound down; the right, then the left, foot tightly bound and strained by cords; the right and left arm stretched; the fleshy part of the arm compressed with fine cords; all the cords tightened together by one turn; a second and third turn of the same kind: beyond this, ...

— The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. - Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History • Annie Besant

... Antinor, with a laugh that rang unnatural and hoarse. "Jest! when for a day and a night my soul hath been on the rack and mocking demons have jeered at my torments? ...

— "Unto Caesar" • Baroness Emmuska Orczy

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