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Open English Wordnet Nouns (n) rack rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton
(n) wrack , rack the destruction or collapse of something “wrack and ruin”
(n) rack , wheel an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims
(n) rack , stand a support for displaying ot holding various articles “the newspapers were arranged on a rack”
(n) rack a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body
(n) rack , single-foot a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately
Verbs (v) rack stretch to the limits “rack one's brains”
(v) rack put on a rack and pinion “rack a camera”
(v) extort , squeeze , rack , gouge , wring obtain by coercion or intimidation “They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss” ,
“They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him”
(v) rack draw off from the lees “rack wine”
(v) rack work on a rack “rack leather”
(v) rack seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block
(v) rack torture on the rack