Definition of rack

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Rack (a.) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes; -- called also rack block. Also, a frame to hold shot..

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Crack :: Crack (n.) A sharp, sudden sound or report; the sound of anything suddenly burst or broken; as, the crack of a falling house; the crack of thunder; the crack of a whip..
Jack :: "Jack (n.) A portable machine variously constructed, for exerting great pressure, or lifting or moving a heavy body through a small distance. It consists of a lever, screw, rack and pinion, hydraulic press, or any simple combination of mechanical powers, working in a compact pedestal or support and operated by a lever, crank, capstan bar, etc. The name is often given to a jackscrew, which is a kind of jack..
Chop :: Chop (n.) A crack or cleft. See Chap.
Wrack :: Wrack (n.) Any marine vegetation cast up on the shore, especially plants of the genera Fucus, Laminaria, and Zostera, which are most abundant on northern shores..
Grackle :: Grackle (n.) An Asiatic bird of the genus Gracula. See Myna.
Chap :: Chap (n.) A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin..
Bracket :: Bracket (n.) A gas fixture or lamp holder projecting from the face of a wall, column, or the like..
Footstep :: Footstep (n.) The mark or impression of the foot; a track; hence, visible sign of a course pursued; token; mark; as, the footsteps of divine wisdom..
Brackishness :: Brackishness (n.) The quality or state of being brackish, or somewhat salt..
Grackle :: Grackle (n.) One of several American blackbirds, of the family Icteridae; as, the rusty grackle (Scolecophagus Carolinus); the boat-tailed grackle (see Boat-tail); the purple grackle (Quiscalus quiscula, or Q. versicolor). See Crow blackbird, under Crow..
Piste :: Piste (n.) The track or tread a horseman makes upon the ground he goes over.
Track :: Track (n.) A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc..
Wit-cracker :: Wit-cracker (n.) One who breaks jests; a joker.
Gimmor :: Gimmor (n.) A piece of mechanism; mechanical device or contrivance; a gimcrack.
Tramroad :: Tramroad (n.) A road prepared for easy transit of trams or wagons, by forming the wheel tracks of smooth beams of wood, blocks of stone, or plates of iron..
Track :: Track (v. t.) To follow the tracks or traces of; to pursue by following the marks of the feet; to trace; to trail; as, to track a deer in the snow..
Crackling :: Crackling (n.) Food for dogs, made from the refuse of tallow melting..
Page :: Page (n.) A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
Rack :: Rack (a.) An instrument or frame used for stretching, extending, retaining, or displaying, something..
Cleave :: Cleave (v. i.) To part; to open; to crack; to separate; as parts of bodies; as, the ground cleaves by frost..
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