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1.nounA series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other
2.nounAny of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
3.nounA device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
4.nounA piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
5.nounA bunk.
6.noun(by extension) Sleep.
7.nounA distaff.
8.nounA bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion#, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it.
9.nounA bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow.
10.nounA cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
11.nounA set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
12.nounA cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs."I bought a rack of lamb at the butcher's yesterday."
13.nounA hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
14.nounA woman's breasts.
15.nounA friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded."abseil rack"
16.nounA climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc."I used almost a full rack on the second pitch."
17.nounA grate on which bacon is laid.
18.nounThat which is extorted; exaction.
19.nounA set with a distributive binary operation whose result is unique.
20.nounA thousand pounds (£1,000), especially such proceeds of crime
21.verbTo place in or hang on a rack.
22.verbTo torture (someone) on the rack.
23.verbTo cause (someone) to suffer pain.
24.verbTo stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
25.verbTo put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
26.verbTo strike a male in the testicles.
27.verbTo (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
28.verbTo move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
29.verbTo wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
30.verbTo bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
31.verb(structural engineering) Tending to shear a structure (that is, force it to move in different directions at different points)."Post-and-lintel construction racks easily."