Male deer’s antlers, car top carrier, or medieval torture frame

noun

1. A framework, stand, or grating on or in which articles are placed
2. An instrument of torture on which a body is stretched
3. The action of straining or wrenching
4. A bar with teeth on one face for gearing with a pinion or worm gear to transform rotary motion to linear motion or vice versa (as in an automobile steering mechanism)
5. A notched bar used as a ratchet to engage with a pawl, click, or detent
6. A pair of antlers
7. Bed, sack
8. A triangular frame used to set up the balls in a pool game
9. A framework for holding fodder for livestock

verb

1. To cause to suffer torture, pain, anguish, or ruin
2. To place (balls, such as pool balls) in a rack
3. To stretch or strain violently
4. To raise (rents) oppressively
5. To harass or oppress with high rents or extortions
6. To torture on the rack
7. To work or treat (material) on a rack
8. To work by a rack and pinion or worm so as to extend or contract

   "rack a camera"

9. To seize (ropes, such as parallel ropes of a tackle) together
10. To become forced out of shape or out of plumb

noun

1. The rib section of a lamb's forequarters used for chops or as a roast see lamb
2. The neck and spine of a forequarter of veal, pork, or especially mutton

noun

1. Destruction

   "rack and ruin"

noun

1. Pace
2. A fast showy 4-beat gait similar to the pace but in which the feet of the same side do not touch down at the same time

verb

1. To go at a rack

noun

1. A wind-driven mass of high often broken clouds

verb

1. To fly or scud in high wind

verb

1. To draw off (wine) from the lees

noun

1. A railway having between its rails a rack that meshes with a gear wheel or pinion of the locomotive for traction on steep grades