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Webster's English Dictionary

rack

n. Same as Arrack. ()

n. [AS. hracca neck, hinder part of the head; cf. AS. hraca throat, G. rachen throat, E. retch.] The neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton. ()

n. [See Wreck.] A wreck; destruction. ()

Rack and ruin, destruction; utter ruin. [Colloq.] -- To go to rack, to perish; to be destroyed. [Colloq.] All goes to rack. Pepys. ()

n. [Prob. fr. Icel. rek drift, motion, and akin to reka to drive, and E. wrack, wreck. 282.] Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky. (Shak.)

The winds in the upper region, which move the clouds above, which we call the rack, . . . pass without noise. (Bacon.)

And the night rack came rolling up. (C. Kingsley.)

v. i. To fly, as vapor or broken clouds. ()

v. i. [See Rack that which stretches, or Rock, v.] To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace; -- said of a horse. (Fuller.)

n. A fast amble. ()

v. t. [Cf. OF. vin raqu wine squeezed from the dregs of the grapes.] To draw off from the lees or sediment, as wine. ()

It is in common practice to draw wine or beer from the lees (which we call racking), whereby it will clarify much the sooner. (Bacon.)

Rack vintage, wine cleansed and drawn from the lees. Cowell. ()

n. [Probably fr. D. rek, rekbank, a rack, rekken to stretch; akin to G. reck, reckbank, a rack, recken to stretch, Dan. rkke, Sw. rcka, Icel. rekja to spread out, Goth. refrakjan to stretch out; cf. L. porrigere, Gr. 'ore`gein. 115. Cf. Right, a., Ratch.]1. An instrument or frame used for stretching, extending, retaining, or displaying, something. ()

During the troubles of the fifteenth century, a rack was introduced into the Tower, and was occasionally used under the plea of political necessity. (Macaulay.)

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

2. (Mech.) A bar with teeth on its face, or edge, to work with those of a wheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive it or be driven by it. ()

3. That which is extorted; exaction. (Sir E. Sandys.)

Mangle rack. (Mach.) See under Mangle. n. -- Rack block. (Naut.) See def. 1 (f), above. -- Rack lashing, a lashing or binding where the rope is tightened, and held tight by the use of a small stick of wood twisted around. -- Rack rail (Railroads), a toothed rack, laid as a rail, to afford a hold for teeth on the driving wheel of a locomotive for climbing steep gradients, as in ascending a mountain. -- Rack saw, a saw having wide teeth. -- Rack stick, the stick used in a rack lashing. -- To be on the rack, to suffer torture, physical or mental. -- To live at rack and manger, to live on the best at another's expense. [Colloq.] -- To put to the rack, to subject to torture; to torment. ()

A fit of the stone puts a king to the rack, and makes him as miserable as it does the meanest subject. (Sir W. Temple.)

v. t. 1. To extend by the application of force; to stretch or strain; specifically, to stretch on the rack or wheel; to torture by an engine which strains the limbs and pulls the joints. ()

He was racked and miserably tormented. (Foxe.)

2. To torment; to torture; to affect with extreme pain or anguish. ()

Vaunting aloud but racked with deep despair. (Milton.)

3. To stretch or strain, in a figurative sense; hence, to harass, or oppress by extortion. ()

The landlords there shamefully rack their tenants. (Spenser.)

They [landlords] rack their rents an ace too high. (Gascoigne.)

Grant that I may never rack a Scripture simile beyond the true intent thereof. (Fuller.)

Try what my credit can in Venice do; That shall be racked even to the uttermost. (Shak.)

4. (Mining) To wash on a rack, as metals or ore. ()

5. (Naut.) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc. ()

To rack one's brains or To rack one's brains out or To rack one's wits, to exert one's thinking processes to the utmost for the purpose of accomplishing something; as, I racked my brains out trying to find a way to solve the problem. ()

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