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▸ noun: Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
▸ noun: (historical) A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
▸ noun: (nautical) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
▸ noun: (nautical, slang) A bunk.
▸ noun: (nautical, by extension, slang, uncountable) Sleep.
▸ noun: A distaff.
▸ noun: (mechanical engineering, rail transport) A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it.
▸ noun: (mechanical engineering) A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow.
▸ noun: A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
▸ noun: A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
▸ noun: A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
▸ noun: (billiards, snooker) A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
▸ noun: (gambling) A plastic tray used for holding and moving chips.
▸ noun: (slang, vulgar) A woman's breasts.
▸ noun: (climbing, caving) A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.
▸ noun: (climbing, slang) A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
▸ noun: A grate on which bacon is laid.
▸ noun: (algebra) A set with a distributive binary operation whose result is unique.
▸ noun: (slang) A thousand, especially if proceeds of a crime.
▸ verb: To place in or hang on a rack.
▸ verb: To torture (someone) on the rack.
▸ verb: To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
▸ verb: (figurative) To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
▸ verb: (billiards, snooker, pool) To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
▸ verb: (slang, transitive) To strike in the testicles.
▸ verb: (firearms) To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
▸ verb: (firearms) To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
▸ verb: (mining) To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
▸ verb: (nautical) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
▸ verb: (structural engineering) To tend to shear a structure (that is, force it to bend, lean, or move in different directions at different points).
▸ verb: To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.
▸ verb: To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.
▸ noun: Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
▸ verb: (brewing) To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
▸ verb: (of a horse) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
▸ noun: A fast amble.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A wreck; destruction.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A young rabbit, or its skin.
▸ noun: Alternative form of arak [A clear, unsweetened aniseed-flavoured alcoholic drink, produced and consumed primarily in the Levant.]
▸ noun: (BDSM) Initialism of risk-aware consensual kink.
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baker's rack,
wine rack,
shoe rack,
coat rack,
towel rack,
spice rack,
dish rack,
bike rack,
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