rack
rak
- n framework for holding objects
- n rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton
- n the destruction or collapse of something
wrack and ruin - n an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims
- n a support for displaying various articles
the newspapers were arranged on a rack - n a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body
- n a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately
- v go at a rack
- v stretch to the limits
rack one's brains - v put on a rack and pinion
rack a camera - v obtain by coercion or intimidation
- v run before a gale
- v fly in high wind
- v draw off from the lees
rack wine - v torment emotionally or mentally
- v work on a rack
rack leather - v seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block
- v torture on the rack
- Fashionistas with no time for real window-shopping can fire up their browser windows and sift through the racks at Net-a-Porter instead.
- It's hard to walk more than two blocks without running into a bike rack, which helps explain why the program has already yielded a 5% drop in car traffic.
- Bjorn is already swinging like a monkey from the luggage racks, while 8-year-old Leah, bound for North Carolina with her mother, purrs and mews to imitate a cat.