Overview of noun rack

The noun rack has 7 senses

• rack -- (framework for holding objects)


• rack -- (rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton)


• wrack, rack -- (the destruction or collapse of something; "wrack and ruin")


• rack, wheel -- (an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims)


• rack, stand -- (a support for displaying various articles; "the newspapers were arranged on a rack")


• rack -- (a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body)


• rack, single-foot -- (a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately)

Overview of verb rack

The verb rack has 11 senses

• single-foot, rack -- (go at a rack; "the horses single-footed")


• rack -- (stretch to the limits; "rack one's brains")


• rack -- (put on a rack and pinion; "rack a camera")


• extort, squeeze, rack, gouge, wring -- (obtain by coercion or intimidation; "They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss"; "They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him")


• scud, rack -- (run before a gale)


• rack -- (fly in high wind)


• rack -- (draw off from the lees; "rack wine")


• torment, torture, excruciate, rack -- (torment emotionally or mentally)


• rack -- (work on a rack; "rack leather")


• rack -- (seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block)


• rack -- (torture on the rack)