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• Rack

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

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• rack

  to rack or reck, to care j never rack you, never care. N. ...

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

• rack

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

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• Bar

  ·noun A drilling or tamping rod. II. Bar ·noun A vein or dike crossing a lode. III. Bar ·noun A ga...

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• Bar

  Used to denote the means by which a door is bolted (Neh. 3:3); a rock in the sea (Jonah 2:6); the sh...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• bar

  for bear. The common pronunciation in certain parts of the Southern and Western States. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• Rack-rent

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

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• Rack-renter

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

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• 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...

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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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• Bar iron

  ·- ·see under <<Iron>>. ...

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• Detector bar

  ·add. ·- A bar, connected with a switch, longer than the distance between any two consecutive wheels...

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• Puddle-bar

  ·noun An iron bar made at a single heat from a puddle-ball hammering and rolling. ...

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• Sea-bar

  ·noun A <<Tern>>. ...

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• Space bar

  ·add. ·- ·Alt. of Space key. ...

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• Sway bar

  ·add. ·- Either of the two bars used in coupling the front and rear sleds of a logging sled; also, t...

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• Bar-jesus

  Son of Joshua, the patronymic of Elymas the sorcerer (Acts 13:6), who met Paul and Barnabas at Papho...

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• Bar-jona

  Son of Jonah, the patronymic of Peter (Matt. 16:17; John 1:42), because his father's name was Jonas....

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• Spital Bar

  A vacant place called the "Spytele Barre" opposite the Hospital of St. Mary Bishopsgate, 1374 (Cal. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Temple Bar

  At the western end of Fleet Street on the boundary of Farringdon Ward Without (O.S.1848-50). A gate...

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• steel bar

  A needle. A steel bar flinger; a taylor, stay- maker, or any other person using a needle. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• crow-bar

  A bar of iron sharpened at one end, used as a lever. In England it is called a crow; though crow-bar...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• mosquito bar

  A net or curtain, which, in the Southern States and in the West Indies, is placed over the bed to pr...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• bar-guest

  a ghost, all in white, with large saucer eyes, commonly appearing near gates or stiles, there called...

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

• toll-bar

  a turnpike. N. ...

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

• crow-bar

  See crow ...

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• parallel-bar

  In the marine steam-engine, forms a connection with the pump-rods and studs along the centre line of...

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• rack of mutton

  the neck or crag. Lane. ...

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• 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 bar the bubble

  To except against the general rule, that he who lays the odds must always be adjudged the loser: thi...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• capstan-bar pins

  Pins inserted through their ends to prevent their unshipping. ...

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• cross-bar-shot

  The famed cross-bar-shot, or properly bar-shot, used by the Americans: when folded it presented a ba...

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• Old Temple, Bar of

  See Holborn Bars. ...

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• bar of a harbour

  See bar of a port ...

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• bar of a port

  or bar of a harbour An accumulated shoal or bank of sand, shingle, gravel, or other uliginous subs...

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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.

• Bar of the New Temple

  See Temple Bar. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Bar of the Old Temple

  See Holborn Bars. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• radius-bar of parallel motion

  An intervening lever for guiding the side-rods of a steam-engine. ...

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