rack
noun
- torture device
- frame used to organize billiard balls at the beginning of a game
- rapid gait of horse, wherein each foot strikes separately
verb
- Search, strain, stretch, torture
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ɹæk/
noun
- Alternative form of arak.
“If it was my officers wanted a stone jar of rack or a dozen of bottled ale, I might manage 'em, but I'm nowhere with sacks.”
verb
Etymology: See rack (“that which stretches”), or rock (verb).
- 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”