Množina: racks

(Homonym: wrack).
1. A support for displaying various articles; SYN. stand.
2. Framework for holding objects.
3. An instrument of torture that stretches, disjoints or mutilates victims; SYN. wheel.
4. Rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton.
5. A rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately; SYN. single-foot.

ETYM Cf. Old Fren. vin raqué wine squeezed from the dregs of the grapes.
1. To work on a rack, of materials such as leather.
2. To fly in high wind.
3. To seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block.
4. To torture on the rack.
5. To work by a rack and pinion or worm so as to extend or contract.
6. To rack one's brains: to search one's memory.
7. To draw off from the lees, as of wine.

Množina: rack and pinions

A wheel gear (the pinion) meshes with a toothed rack; converts rotary to reciprocating motion (and vice versa).

Množina: rack of lambs

A roast of the rib section of lamb; SYN. crown roast.

To think hard, especially in order to remember something.

Množina: rack panels

Množina: rack railroads

Railroad, used in mountainous regions, that uses a toothed pinion running in a toothed rack to provide traction. The rack usually runs between the rails. Ordinary wheels lose their grip even on quite shallow gradients, but rack railroads, like that on Mount Pilatus in Switzerland, can climb slopes as steep as 50% (1 in 2). rack-railroad

1. To place in a rack
2. To supply a rack with feed for (horses or other animals).

Množina: rack-mount oscilloscopes

Built for installation in a metal frame or cabinet of standard width (typically 19 inches or 23 inches) and mounting arrangements.

Množina: rack-railways

A railway having between its rails a rack that meshes with a gear wheel or pinion of the locomotive for traction on steep grades

To subject to rack rent

Množina: rack-renters

One that pays or exacts rack rent

Množina: rack-wheels

Množina: rackans