Ladder (v. i.) A frame usually portable, of wood, metal, or rope, for ascent and descent, consisting of two side pieces to which are fastened cross strips or rounds forming steps. |
Ladder (v. i.) That which resembles a ladder in form or use |
Rack (n.) Same as Arrack. |
Rack (n.) The neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton. |
Rack (n.) A wreck |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Rack (a.) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes |
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 |
Rack (v. t.) To extend by the application of force |
Rack (v. t.) To torment |
Rack (v. t.) To stretch or strain, in a figurative sense |
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. |
Rack-rent (n.) A rent of the full annual value of the tenement, or near it |
Rack-rent (v. t.) To subject to rack-rent, as a farm or tenant. |
Rack-renter (n.) One who is subjected to paying rack-rent. |
Rack-renter (n.) One who exacts rack-rent. |
rack single-foot | a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately |
rack | a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body |
accommodation ladder | (nautical) a portable ladder hung over the side of a vessel to give access to small boats alongside |
aerial ladder | mechanically extendible ladder, used on a fire truck |
articulated ladder | a ladder consisting of segments (usually four) that are held together by joints that can lock in place |
bicycle rack | a rack for parking bicycles |
bomb rack | a device on an aircraft for carrying bombs |
coatrack coat rack hatrack | a rack with hooks for temporarily holding coats and hats |
cog railway rack railway | railway for steep mountains, a cogwheel on the locomotive engages cogs on a center rail to provide traction |
dish rack | a rack for holding dishes as dishwater drains off of them |
dress rack | a rack used primarily to display dresses for sale in a store |
extension ladder | a ladder whose length can be extended |
fish ladder | a series of ascending pools providing a passage for salmon to swim upstream past a dam |
Jacob's ladder jack ladder pilot ladder | (nautical) a hanging ladder of ropes or chains supporting wooden or metal rungs or steps |
ladder | steps consisting of two parallel members connected by rungs, for climbing up or down |
ladder-back | the backrest of a chair that consists of two uprights with connecting slats |
ladder-back ladder-back chair | a chair with a ladder-back |
ladder truck aerial ladder truck | a fire engine carrying ladders |
luggage rack roof rack | carrier for holding luggage above the seats of a train or on top of a car |
magazine rack | a rack for displaying magazines |
monkey ladder | a light ladder to the monkey bridge on a ship |
music stand music rack | a light stand for holding sheets of printed music |
pipe rack | a rack for holding a smoker's pipes |
plate rack | a rack for holding plates to dry after they have been washed |
rack stand | a support for displaying various articles, the newspapers were arranged on a rack |
rack | framework for holding objects |
rack wheel | an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims |
rack and pinion | a wheel gear (the pinion) meshes with a toothed rack, converts rotary to reciprocating motion (and vice versa) |
rope ladder | a ladder with side pieces of rope |
scaling ladder | a ladder used to scale walls (as in an attack) |
sea ladder sea steps | (nautical) ladder to be lowered over a ship's side for coming aboard |
ski rack | a carrier for holding skis on top of a vehicle |
spice rack | a rack for displaying containers filled with spices |
step ladder stepladder | a folding portable ladder hinged at the top |
tie rack | a rack for storing ties |
towel rack towel horse | a rack consisting of one or more bars on which towels can be hung |
wrack rack | the destruction or collapse of something, wrack and ruin |
run ladder ravel | a row of unravelled stitches, she got a run in her stocking |
rack | rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton |
rack of lamb crown roast | a roast of the rib section of lamb |
Jacob's ladder Greek valerian charity Polemonium caeruleum Polemonium van-bruntiae Polymonium caeruleum van-bruntiae | pinnate-leaved European perennial having bright blue or white flowers |
northern Jacob's ladder Polemonium boreale | perennial erect herb with white flowers, circumboreal |
rack rent | an extortionate rent |
ladder | ascending stages by which somebody or something can progress, he climbed the career ladder |
rack | torture on the rack |
ladder run | come unraveled or undone as if by snagging, Her nylons were running |
rack up | supply a rack with feed for (horses or other animals) |
worst pip mop up whip rack up | defeat thoroughly, He mopped up the floor with his opponents |
score hit tally rack up | gain points in a game, The home team scored many times, He hit a home run, He hit .in the past season |
rack | seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block |