Definition of rack

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Rack (a.) An instrument for bending a bow.

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Tracing :: Tracing (n.) A regular path or track; a course.
Crack :: Crack (v. i.) To be ruined or impaired; to fail.
Track :: Track (n.) Course; way; as, the track of a comet..
Ancone :: Ancone (n.) A bracket supporting a cornice; a console.
Cry :: Cry (v. i.) The crackling noise made by block tin when it is bent back and forth.
Cracker :: Cracker (n.) One who, or that which, cracks..
Wrack :: Wrack (v. t.) To rack; to torment.
Spoor :: Spoor (n.) The track or trail of any wild animal; as, the spoor of an elephant; -- used originally by travelers in South Africa..
Trestle :: Trestle (n.) A movable frame or support for anything, as scaffolding, consisting of three or four legs secured to a top piece, and forming a sort of stool or horse, used by carpenters, masons, and other workmen; also, a kind of framework of strong posts or piles, and crossbeams, for supporting a bridge, the track of a railway, or the like..
Spring :: Spring (v. i.) A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely..
Racking :: Racking (n.) Spun yarn used in racking ropes.
Hackmatack :: Hackmatack (n.) The American larch (Larix Americana), a coniferous tree with slender deciduous leaves; also, its heavy, close-grained timber. Called also tamarack..
Bracketing :: Bracketing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bracke.
Tamarack :: Tamarack (n.) The American larch; also, the larch of Oregon and British Columbia (Larix occidentalis). See Hackmatack, and Larch..
Draw :: Draw (v. t.) To trace by scent; to track; -- a hunting term.
Rack :: Rack (v. i.) To fly, as vapor or broken clouds..
Rack :: Rack (a.) A frame or device of various construction for holding, and preventing the waste of, hay, grain, etc., supplied to beasts..
Pinion :: Pinion (n.) A cogwheel with a small number of teeth, or leaves, adapted to engage with a larger wheel, or rack (see Rack); esp., such a wheel having its leaves formed of the substance of the arbor or spindle which is its axis..
Motmot :: Motmot (n.) Any one of several species of long-tailed, passerine birds of the genus Momotus, having a strong serrated beak. In most of the species the two long middle tail feathers are racket-shaped at the tip, when mature. The bird itself is said by some writers to trim them into this shape. They feed on insects, reptiles, and fruit, and are found from Mexico to Brazil. The name is derived from its note..
Crack :: Crack (v. t.) To rend with grief or pain; to affect deeply with sorrow; hence, to disorder; to distract; to craze..
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