Word Meaning

Meaning of racks

- Same as Arrack.
- The neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton.
- A wreck; destruction.
- Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky.
- To fly, as vapor or broken clouds.
- To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace; -- said of a horse.
- A fast amble.
- To draw off from the lees or sediment, as wine.
- An instrument or frame used for stretching, extending, retaining, or displaying, something.
- 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.
- An instrument for bending a bow.
- A grate on which bacon is laid.
- A frame or device of various construction for holding, and preventing the waste of, hay, grain, etc., supplied to beasts.
- A frame on which articles are deposited for keeping or arranged for display; as, a clothes rack; a bottle rack, etc.
- 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.
- A frame or table on which ores are separated or washed.
- A frame fitted to a wagon for carrying hay, straw, or grain on the stalk, or other bulky loads.
- A distaff.
- 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.
- That which is extorted; exaction.
- 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.
- To torment; to torture; to affect with extreme pain or anguish.
- To stretch or strain, in a figurative sense; hence, to harass, or oppress by extortion.
- To wash on a rack, as metals or ore.
- To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.

Crossword clue for racks

- Chest pain
- cue holder
- Form of torture
- Framework for holding objects
- Framework of bars
- Instrument of torture
- Rib section of lamb
- Storage unit
- The destruction of the shelving
- Torture
- Wine storage unit
- A luggage holder
- Cue holders
- Frameworks
- Instruments of torture
- Luggage shelves
- Storage units for wine, etc.
- Tortures
- Wine holders