Crossword-Solution: RACK
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Rack | n. | Same as Arrack. |
| Rack | n. | The neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton. |
| Rack | n. | A wreck; destruction. |
| Rack | n. | Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky. |
| Rack | v. i. | To fly, as vapor or broken clouds. |
| Rack | v. | To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace; -- said of a horse. |
| Rack | n. | A fast amble. |
| Rack | v. t. | To draw off from the lees or sediment, as wine. |
| Rack | a. | An instrument or frame used for stretching, extending, retaining, or displaying, something. |
| 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. |
| Rack | a. | An instrument for bending a bow. |
| Rack | a. | A grate on which bacon is laid. |
| Rack | a. | A frame or device of various construction for holding, and preventing the waste of, hay, grain, etc., supplied to beasts. |
| Rack | a. | A frame on which articles are deposited for keeping or arranged for display; as, a clothes rack; a bottle rack, etc. |
| 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. |
| Rack | a. | A frame or table on which ores are separated or washed. |
| Rack | a. | A frame fitted to a wagon for carrying hay, straw, or grain on the stalk, or other bulky loads. |
| Rack | a. | A distaff. |
| Rack | a. | 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. |
| Rack | a. | That which is extorted; exaction. |
| 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. |
| Rack | v. t. | To torment; to torture; to affect with extreme pain or anguish. |
| Rack | v. t. | To stretch or strain, in a figurative sense; hence, to harass, or oppress by extortion. |
| Rack | v. t. | To wash on a rack, as metals or ore. |
| Rack | v. t. | To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| RACK | anagram | CARK, KCAR |
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which
covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
ENACOR
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COVER THE EYES
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Sentences with RACK (5)
When he heard steps approaching in the corridor, he rose, blotted his book, put his pen in the rack, and left the room without raising his eyes.
Would he arouse him with a throb of agony? The victim was for ever on the rack; it needed only to know the spring that controlled the engine: and the physician knew it well.
She entered her father’s front door, hung her hat and coat on the rack, and stopped in the parlor to warm her hands at the stove.
Carefully I picked my way between and over the soldiers until I had gained the rack at the far side of the room.
Close to the entrance where I stood was a rack of straight swords, and as my hand closed upon the hilt of one of them my eyes fell upon the faces of two of the prisoners who worked side by side.
Quotes with RACK (3)
Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
the [coat] rack above his head like a javelin. On the other side of the door was Jace. He blinked. "Is that a coatrack?" Jordan slammed the coatrack down on the ground and sighed. "If you'd been a vampire, this would have been a lot more useful.""Yes," said Jace. "Or, you know, just someone with a lot of coats.
He caught a glimpse of that extraordinary faculty in man, that strange, altruistic, rare, and obstinate decency which will make writers or scientists maintain their truths at the risk of death. Eppur si muove, Galileo was to say; it moves all the same. They were to be in a position to burn him if he would go on with it, with his preposterous nonsense about the earth moving round the sun, but he was to continue with the sublime assertion because there was something which he va…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 256 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).