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Definition of rack

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Rack (a.) An engine of torture, consisting of a large frame, upon which the body was gradually stretched until, sometimes, the joints were dislocated; -- formerly used judicially for extorting confessions from criminals or suspected persons..

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Half-cracked :: Half-cracked (a.) Half-demented; half-witted.

Chink :: Chink (n.) A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall..

Gallery :: Gallery (a.) A long and narrow platform attached to one or more sides of public hall or the interior of a church, and supported by brackets or columns; -- sometimes intended to be occupied by musicians or spectators, sometimes designed merely to increase the capacity of the hall..

Bracket :: Bracket (v. t.) To place within brackets; to connect by brackets; to furnish with brackets.

Lap :: Lap (n.) One circuit around a race track, esp. when the distance is a small fraction of a mile; as, to run twenty laps; to win by three laps. See Lap, to fold, 2..

Crack :: Crack (v. t.) To utter smartly and sententiously; as, to crack a joke..

Chop :: Chop (v. t. & i.) To crack. See Chap, v. t. & i..

Racketing :: Racketing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Racke.

Fracture :: Fracture (v. t.) To cause a fracture or fractures in; to break; to burst asunder; to crack; to separate the continuous parts of; as, to fracture a bone; to fracture the skull..

Rack :: Rack (n.) A wreck; destruction.

Rack :: Rack (v. t.) 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..

Clift :: Clift (n.) A cleft of crack; a narrow opening.

Vermiculate :: Vermiculate (v. t.) To form or work, as by inlaying, with irregular lines or impressions resembling the tracks of worms, or appearing as if formed by the motion of worms..

Choppy :: Choppy (a.) Full of cracks.

Check :: Check (n.) Small chick or crack.

Broken :: Broken (v. t.) Fractured; cracked; disunited; sundered; strained; apart; as, a broken reed; broken friendship..

Stage :: Stag (v. t.) To watch; to dog, or keep track of..

Tread :: Tread (n.) Way; track; path.

Cracknel :: Cracknel (v. t.) A hard brittle cake or biscuit.

Rut :: Rut (n.) A track worn by a wheel or by habitual passage of anything; a groove in which anything runs. Also used figuratively.