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Word: rack (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs
  • A device used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
  • A frame on which to hang various items.
  • A pair of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
  • A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other
  • snooker|pool A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
  • caving A friction device for abseiling, consisting of 5 or more metal bars on a frame, around which the rope is threaded. Also ''rappel rack'', ''abseil rack''.
  • slang A woman's breasts.

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Verb:

  • snooker|pool To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
  • brewing To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
  • slang To strike a male in the groin with the knee.
  • stretch joints of a person
  • To fly, as vapour or broken clouds
  • To place in or hang on a rack

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