rack¹ /rak/

1. An instrument for stretching, esp an instrument of torture
2. An extreme pain, anxiety or doubt (figurative)
3. Stress, esp of weather
4. A framework, grating, shelf, etc on or in which articles are laid or set aside
5. A grating from which farm animals, etc may pull down fodder
6. A bar or framework as for chaining a prisoner (Spenser)
7. A bar with teeth to work into those of a wheel, pinion, cog, etc

1. To stretch or move forcibly or excessively
2. To strain
3. To wrest, overstrain, distort
4. To torture
5. To practise rapacity upon
6. To extort (Spenser)
7. To put in a rack
8. To separate (ore) by washing it on an inclined plane (mining)
9. To move or adjust by rack and pinion

racked adjective (also, non-standard, wracked)

1. Tortured, tormented
2. (in combination) denoting tortured or distressed by, as in disease-racked, etc

rackˈer noun

rackˈing noun and adjective

rack and pinion noun

A means of turning rotatory into linear or linear into rotatory motion by a toothed wheel engaging in a rack

rack price noun (N American)

The price at which a product is made available to a retailer or dealer, wholesale price

rack rail noun

A cogged rail, as on a rack-and-pinion railway

rack railway noun

A mountain railway with a rack in which a cogwheel on the locomotive works

rackˈ-rent noun

1. A rent stretched to the utmost annual value of the property rented, an exorbitant rent
2. A rack-renter

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