Noun
1. framework for holding objects
2. rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton
3. the destruction or collapse of something;
"wrack and ruin"4. an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims
5. a support for displaying various articles;
"the newspapers were arranged on a rack"6. a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately
Verb
1. go at a rack;
"the horses single-footed"2. stretch to the limits;
"rack one's brains"3. put on a rack and pinion;
"rack a camera"4. obtain by coercion or intimidation;
"They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss""They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him"5. run before a gale
6. fly in high wind
7. draw off from the lees;
"rack wine"8. torment emotionally or mentally
9. work on a rack;
"rack leather"10. seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block
11. torture on the rack