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. |
Railway
(n.) A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a bed or substructure. |
Railway
(n.) The road, track, etc., with all the lands, buildings, rolling stock, franchises, etc., pertaining to them and constituting one property |
Underground Railroad
Underground Railway | secret aid to escaping slaves that was provided by abolitionists in the years before the American Civil War |
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 |
| bicycle rack | a rack for parking bicycles |
| bomb rack | a device on an aircraft for carrying bombs |
cable railway
funicular
funicular railway | a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars |
car railcar
railway car
railroad car | a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad, three cars had jumped the rails |
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 |
elevated railway
elevated railroad
elevated
el
overhead railway | a railway that is powered by electricity and that runs on a track that is raised above the street level |
line railway line
rail line | the road consisting of railroad track and roadbed |
locomotive
engine locomotive engine
railway locomotive | a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks |
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 |
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) |
railroad track
railroad railway | a line of track providing a runway for wheels, he walked along the railroad track |
railway
railroad
railroad line
railway line railway system | line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight |
| railway junction | a junction where two or more railway lines meet or cross |
railway station
railroad station
railroad terminal
train station
train depot | terminal where trains load or unload passengers or goods |
| scenic railway | small railway in an amusement park |
| ski rack | a carrier for holding skis on top of a vehicle |
| spice rack | a rack for displaying containers filled with spices |
| 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 |
yard railway yard
railyard | an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines |
wrack
rack | the destruction or collapse of something, wrack and ruin |
| 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 |
trainman
railroader
railroad man
railwayman
railway man | an employee of a railroad |
| rack rent | an extortionate rent |
| rack | torture on the rack |
| 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 |
| rack up | place in a rack, rack pool balls |
| rack | work on a rack, rack leather |
| rack | stretch to the limits, rack one's brains |
torment
torture
excruciate
rack | torment emotionally or mentally |
| rack | draw off from the lees, rack wine |
| rack | fly in high wind |
| scud rack | run before a gale |