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• Rack

  ·noun A fast amble. II. Rack ·noun A wreck; destruction. III. Rack ·adj A grate on which bacon is ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• rack

  The superior stratum of clouds, or that moving rapidly above the scud. The line in which the clouds ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Rack-rent

  ·vt To subject to rack-rent, as a farm or tenant. II. Rack-rent ·noun A rent of the full annual val...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Rack-renter

  ·noun One who exacts rack-rent. II. Rack-renter ·noun One who is subjected to paying rack-rent. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• rack rent

  Rent strained to the utmost value. To lie at rack and manger; to be in great disorder. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• arm-rack

  A frame or fitting for the stowage of arms (usually vertical) out of harm's way, but in readiness fo...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• rack-bar

  A billet of wood used for twisting the bight of a swifter round, in order to bind a raft firmly toge...

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• rack-block

  A range of sheaves cut in one piece of wood, for running ropes to lead through. ...

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• rack-hurry

  The tram-way on which coal-waggons run to a hurry. ...

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• rack-rider

  The name of the samlet in northern fisheries, so called because it generally appears in bad weather....

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• rack of mutton

  the neck or crag. Lane. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• horse-shoe rack

  A sweep curving from the bitt-heads abaft the main-mast carrying a set of nine-pin swivel-blocks as ...

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• to stand up to the rack

  A metaphorical expression of the same meaning as the like choice phrases, 'to come to the scratch;' ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.