Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Rack (10)

Rack (răk), 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 ...

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Rack (2)

Rack, 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.

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Rack (3)

Rack, n. [See Wreck.] A wreck; destruction.Rack and ruin, destruction; utter ruin. — To go to rack, to perish; to be destroyed. “All goes to rack.” Pepys.

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Rack (4)

Rack, 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. Sha...

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Rack (5)

Rack, v. i. To fly, as vapor or broken clouds.

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Rack (6)

Rack, v. i. [imp. & p. p.Racked (răkt); p. pr. & vb. n.Racking.] [See Rack that which stretches, or Rock, v.] To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to ...

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Rack (7)

Rack, n. A fast amble.

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Rack (8)

Rack, v. t. [Cf. OF. vin raqué 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...

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Rack (9)

Rack, n. [Probably fr. D. rek, rekbank, a rack, rekken to stretch; akin to G. reck, reckbank, a rack, recken to stretch, Dan. række, Sw. räcka, Icel. rekja to spread out, Goth. ...

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Rack-rent

Rack″–rent′ (–rĕnt′), n. A rent of the full annual value of the tenement, or near it; an excessive or unreasonably high rent. Blackstone.

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Rack-rent (2)

Rack″–rent′, v. t. To subject to rack-rent, as a farm or tenant.

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Rack-renter

Rack″–rent′er (–ẽr), n. 1. One who is subjected to paying rack-rent.2. One who exacts rack-rent.

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Rackabones

Rack″a‐bones′ (răk″ȧ‐bōnz′), n. A very lean animal, esp. a horse.

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Rackarock

Rack″a‐rock′ (?), n. [Rack to stretch, strain + a + rock.] A Sprengel explosive consisting of potassium chlorate and mono-nitrobenzene.

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Racker

Rack″er (răk″ẽr), n. 1. One who racks.2. A horse that has a racking gait.

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Racket

Rack″et (răk″ĕt), n. [F. raquette; cf. Sp. raqueta, It. racchetta, which is perhaps for retichetta, and fr. L. rete a net (cf. Reticule); or perh. from the Arabic; cf. Ar. rāha ...

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Racket (2)

Rack″et, v. t. To strike with, or as with, a racket.Poor man racketed from one temptation to another. Hewyt.

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Racket (3)

Rack″et, n. [Gael. racaid a noise, disturbance.]1. Confused, clattering noise; din; noisy talk or sport.2. A carouse; any reckless dissipation.

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Racket (4)

Rack″et, v. i. [imp. & p. p.Racketed; p. pr. & vb. n.Racketing.] 1. To make a confused noise or racket.2. To engage in noisy sport; to frolic. Sterne.3. To carouse or engage in ...

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Racket (5)

Rack″et, n. A scheme, dodge, trick, or the like; something taking place considered as exciting, trying, unusual, or the like; also, such occurrence considered as an ordeal; as, ...

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Racket-tail

Rack″et–tail′ (–tāl′), n.(Zoöl.) Any one of several species of humming birds of the genus Steganura, having two of the tail feathers very long and racket-shaped.

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Racket-tailed

Rack″et–tailed′ (–tāld′), a.(Zoöl.) Having long and spatulate, or racket-shaped, tail feathers.

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Racketer

Rack″et‐er (–ẽr), n. One who makes, or engages in, a racket.

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Rackett

Rack″ett (–ĕt), n.(Mus.) An old wind instrument of the double bassoon kind, having ventages but not keys.

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Rackety

Rack″et‐y (–y̆), a. Making a tumultuous noise.

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Racking

Rack″ing, n.(Naut.) Spun yarn used in racking ropes.

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Racktail

Rack″tail′ (răk″tāl′), n.(Horol.) An arm attached to a swinging notched arc or rack, to let off the striking mechanism of a repeating clock.