Definition of rack

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Rack (a.) An engine of torture, consisting of a large frame, upon which the body was gradually stretched until, sometimes, the joints were dislocated; -- formerly used judicially for extorting confessions from criminals or suspected persons..

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Batten :: Batten (n .) A strip of sawed stuff, or a scantling; as, (a) pl. (Com. & Arch.) Sawed timbers about 7 by 2 1/2 inches and not less than 6 feet long. Brande & C. (b) (Naut.) A strip of wood used in fastening the edges of a tarpaulin to the deck, also around masts to prevent chafing. (c) A long, thin strip used to strengthen a part, to cover a crack, etc..
Tennis :: Tennis (n.) A play in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racket or with the open hand..
Crack :: Crack (n.) Free conversation; friendly chat.
Thrack :: Thrack (v. t.) To load or burden; as, to thrack a man with property..
Cracked :: Cracked (a.) Coarsely ground or broken; as, cracked wheat..
Road :: Road (n.) A place where one may ride; an open way or public passage for vehicles, persons, and animals; a track for travel, forming a means of communication between one city, town, or place, and another..
Cleft :: Cleft (n.) A disease in horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.
Slat :: Slat (v. t.) To split; to crack.
Turn-out :: Turn-out (n.) A short side track on a railroad, which may be occupied by one train while another is passing on a main track; a shunt; a siding; a switch..
Bloodhound :: Bloodhound (n.) A breed of large and powerful dogs, with long, smooth, and pendulous ears, and remarkable for acuteness of smell. It is employed to recover game or prey which has escaped wounded from a hunter, and for tracking criminals. Formerly it was used for pursuing runaway slaves. Other varieties of dog are often used for the same purpose and go by the same name. The Cuban bloodhound is said to be a variety of the mastiff..
Siding :: Siding (n.) A side track, as a railroad; a turnout..
Bracket :: Bracket (n.) A gas fixture or lamp holder projecting from the face of a wall, column, or the like..
Rack :: Rack (n.) A wreck; destruction.
Hornwrack :: Hornwrack (n.) A bryozoan of the genus Flustra.
Foiling :: Foiling (n.) The track of game (as deer) in the grass.
Crackled :: Crackled (a.) Covered with minute cracks in the glaze; -- said of some kinds of porcelain and fine earthenware.
Investigate :: Investigate (v. t.) To follow up step by step by patient inquiry or observation; to trace or track mentally; to search into; to inquire and examine into with care and accuracy; to find out by careful inquisition; as, to investigate the causes of natural phenomena..
Trackage :: Trackage (n.) The act of tracking, or towing, as a boat; towage..
Trackmaster :: Trackmaster (n.) One who has charge of the track; -- called also roadmaster.
Salsuginous :: salsuginous (a.) Growing in brackish places or in salt marshes.
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