racknoun詞源 1/ɹæk/

• 1

  A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other.

• 2

  Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.

• 3

  historicalA device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.

  • Ay, but I fear you speak upon the rack, / Where men enforced do speak anything.
  • During the troubles of the fifteenth century, a rack was introduced into the Tower, and was occasionally used under the plea of political necessity.
• 4

  nauticaltransportA piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.

• 5

  slangnauticaltransportA bunk.

  • Chief Stevens approached my rack and repeatedly ordered me to vacate my rack and report to the working party.
  • By the time I had unpacked my sea bag, made my rack, and finished a good long hot shower, it was late in the evening.
• 6

  slangnauticaltransportSleep.

  • Do I have to do this now? Like, I really need to get some rack.
• 7

  A distaff.

• 8

  engineeringmechanicalmechanical-engineeringA bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it.

  • Holonym: rack and pinion
  • Just beyond that station the first step is encountered and the rack resorted to, taking the line on a gradient of 1 in 9 over a steeply inclined bridge and through a spiral tunnel.

rackverb詞源 2/ɹæk/

• 1

  To place in or hang on a rack.

• 2

  To torture (someone) on the rack.

  • He was racked and miserably tormented.
  • As the poet Sir Thomas Wyatt later recalled, his father, Henry VII's jewel-house keeper Henry Wyatt, had been racked on the orders of Richard III, who had sat there and watched.
• 3

  To cause (someone) to suffer pain.

  • Vaunting aloud but racked with deep despair.
• 4

  To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.

  • Try what my credit can in Venice do; / That shall be racked even to the uttermost.
  • The landlords there most shamefully rack their tenants.
• 5

  obsoletehuman-sciencesmysticismoccultTo alternately concatenate two words to magical effect.

  • Foꝛ when we heare one racke the name of God,/Abiure the ſcriptures, and his Sauiour Chꝛiſt...
• 6

  ball-gamesbilliardsgamesTo put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.

• 7

  slangTo strike in the testicles.

  • Bike7125 raises a great point suggesting that cups could have been recommended "optional" equipment in school PE. I never got racked by a baseball or softball, but we did have a gym teacher, who insisted on a weekly session of a "cruelty sport" called bombardment. The idea was to throw basketballs at a line of guys, and try to hit them. (Guess where most gym bullys aimed!)
• 8

  slangTo shoplift (especially in a megastore), often by taking off of a rack.

  • He racked three boxes of gum!
  • my buddy used to go racking for spray paint at the home despot. then a banger shot him in the head one night.^([sic])

rackverb詞源 3/ɹæk/

• 1

  To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.

• 2

  To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.

racknoun詞源 3/ɹæk/

• 1

  Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.

  • The winds in the upper region, which move the clouds above, which we call the rack, […] pass without noise.
  • And the night rack came rolling up.

rackverb詞源 4/ɹæk/

• 1

  beveragesbrewingbusinessTo clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.

  • It is in common practice to draw wine or beer from the lees (which we call racking), whereby it will clarify much the sooner.
  • The Darwin administrator, J.C. Archer, with great ceremony, turned on the flow to rack the precious golden stuff into casks.

rackverb詞源 5/ɹæk/

• 1

  To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.

  • The other two (only racking, no thorough-paced protestants) watched their opportunity to run away

racknoun詞源 5/ɹæk/

• 1

  A fast amble.

racknoun詞源 6/ɹæk/

• 1

  obsoleteA wreck; destruction.

  • All goes to rack.

racknoun詞源 7/ɹæk/

• 1

  obsoleteA young rabbit, or its skin.

  • Now, sir, you would say a skin is a skin, we say it is a ' whole,' or a 'half,' or a 'quarter,' or a 'rack,' or a 'sucker. Suckers are skins of infant rabbits, and of little value. Eight racks are equal to one whole.
  • The skin of a sucker is white, of a quarter, black and white striped, of a rack all black, and of a best all white.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• risk-aware consensual kink
• arak