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[rak] Origin

rack

1[rak]
noun
1.
a framework of bars, wires, or pegs on which articles are arranged or deposited: a clothes rack; a luggage rack.
2.
a fixture containing several tiered shelves, often affixed to a wall: a book rack; a spice rack.
3.
a spreading framework set on a wagon for carrying hay, straw, or the like, in large loads.
4.
Pool.
a.
a wooden frame of triangular shape within which the balls are arranged before play.
b.
the balls so arranged: He took aim at the rack.
5.
Machinery.
a.
a bar, with teeth on one of its sides, adapted to engage with the teeth of a pinion (rack and pinion) or the like, as for converting circular into rectilinear motion or vice versa.
b.
a bar having a series of notches engaging with a pawl or the like.
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6.
a former instrument of torture consisting of a framework on which a victim was tied, often spread-eagled, by the wrists and ankles, to be slowly stretched by spreading the parts of the framework.
7.
a cause or state of intense suffering of body or mind.
8.
torment; anguish.
9.
violent strain.
10.
a pair of antlers.
11.
Slang. a bed, cot, or bunk: I spent all afternoon in the rack.
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verb (used with object)
12.
to torture; distress acutely; torment: His body was racked with pain.
13.
to strain in mental effort: to rack one's brains.
14.
to strain by physical force or violence.
15.
to strain beyond what is normal or usual.
16.
to stretch the body of (a person) in torture by means of a rack.
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17.
Nautical. to seize (two ropes) together side by side.
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Rack out is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
18.
rack out, Slang. to go to bed; go to sleep: I racked out all afternoon.
19.
rack up,
a.
Pool. to put (the balls) in a rack.
b.
Informal. to tally, accumulate, or amass as an achievement or score: The corporation racked up the greatest profits in its history.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English rakke, rekke (noun) < Middle Dutch rac, rec, recke; compare Middle Low German reck, German Reck

rack·ing·ly, adverb

racked, wracked, wreaked, wrecked.


7. torture, pain, agony, tribulation, ordeal. 12. See torment.

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Word Origin & History

rack
"clouds driven before the wind," c.1300, also "rush of wind, collision, crash," possibly from O.E. racu "cloud," reinforced by O.N. rek "wreckage, jetsam," or by influence of O.E. wræc "something driven." Originally a northern word, perhaps from an unrecorded Scand. cognate of O.E. racu. Often
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confused with wrack (q.v.), especially in phrase rack and ruin (1599). The distinction is that rack is "driven clouds;" wrack is "seaweed cast up on shore."
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Slang Dictionary

rack (out) definition


  1. in.
    to go to sleep or to bed. (See also rack.) : What time do you rack out?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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rack (sth) definition


  1. tv.
    to accumulate something; to collect or acquire something. : We racked up twenty points in the game last Saturday.
  2. tv.
    to wreck something. : He racked up his arm in the football game.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Idioms & Phrases

rack out

Go to sleep, as in I racked out about midnight. This slangy expression, as well as the related , for sleeping or snooze time, use rack to refer to being laid out on a framework, here a bed.

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