spec. transitive. To draw or stretch out (a person's limbs or body, or a person) as a punishment or torture. Also with out.

transitive. ? To stretch on the rack, torture.

transitive. To put on the rack; to torture. Obsolete (archaic and figurative in later use).

transitive. To stretch the joints of (a person or a part of the body) as a punishment or a form of torture, usually by means of a special…

To extend (a person) on, in (an instrument of torture). Also with out. Obsolete.

To stretch on a rack or on a cross. Obsolete. Cf. stretch, v. 17.

transitive. To stretch the joints of (a person) on a rack (rack, n.3 2b) as a punishment or a form of torture. Obsolete.

To torture on the ‘brake’ or rack; to rack.

transitive. To torment, torture, rack.

literal. To subject to torture, put on the rack, etc.; figurative to ‘rack’ (one's brains) (obsolete).

To pull (a person's) limbs lengthwise; esp. to torture by so doing, to rack. In early use, to place with extended limbs on a cross. Also with out.

to break on the wheel: to bind a criminal to a wheel, or similar frame, and break his limbs, or beat him to death; so †to break on the torture: to…

To stretch or extend beyond measure; to strain; to draw out of joint, to rack. Obsolete. rare.

transferred. To hang or stretch as on a tenter or tenters. Obsolete.

To pull out of joint, to rack. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To stretch on the rack.