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noun Masonry.
the stepping back of the ends of courses successively from bottom to top in an unfinished wall to facilitate resumption of work or bonding with an intersecting wall.
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Racking
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| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
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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.
EXPANDMachinery.
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.
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.
COLLAPSESlang. a bed, cot, or bunk: I spent all afternoon in the rack.
verb (used with object)
Verb phrases12.
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.
EXPANDto stretch the body of (a person) in torture by means of a rack.
17.
COLLAPSENautical. to seize (two ropes) together side by side.
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.
noun
1.
Also called cloud rack. a group of drifting clouds.
verb (used without object)
2.
to drive or move, especially before the wind.
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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
EXPANDconfused 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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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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