What does the word rack mean?
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A machine for stretching or straining; an instrument of torture by which the limbs were stretched or strained.
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A bar having teeth that engage with those of a gear - wheel.
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A quadruped's motion resembling the pace, two feet on a side being moved at once.
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Same as WRACK; obsolete except in the pharse " to go to rack and ruin.".
Part of speech: verb transitive
Part of speech: verb transitive
Part of speech: verb intransitive
Part of speech: noun
Part of speech: noun
Part of speech: noun
Part of speech: noun
Part of speech: noun
Part of speech: noun
Usage examples for rack
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I was sleeping in the station, way up on top of a tire rack. – The-Life-of-Me-an-autobiography by Johnson, Clarence Edgar
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But if that is so it is a misfortune, not a crime for which one should be put on the rack! – The Adventure of Living by John St. Loe Strachey
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" Let's sit here, Miller," he said, having selected a seat near the rear of the car and deposited his suitcase in a rack. – The Marrow of Tradition by Charles W. Chesnutt