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rack
Part of speech: NounAn instrument for torturing the body by stretching or straining the limbs; formerly used to force a confession; intense physical or mental suffering; a framework on or in which articles are hung or arranged; a straight bar having teeth which work with the teeth of a pinion or cogwheel; thin, broken, vapory clouds; wreck; used only in rack and ruin; a pacing gait of a horse.
Part of speech: VerbTo stretch or strain on an instrument of torture; torture; torment; as, racked by remorse; strain; tear; as, racked by a cough; tax greatly; as, to rack one's brain.
Part of speech: VerbTo go at a pacing gait, as a horse.
Usage examples "rack":- It contained, however, a long rack furnished with some dozens of champagne, neck downwards, and most carefully bestowed. - "First Person Paramount", Ambrose Pratt.
- One has heard of blank- verse that is merely 'prose cut into lengths, ' but his lines suggest that they must have been on the rack to bring them to the right measure. - "Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts", Rosalind Northcote.
- Hour after hour he sat, and still she slept, outwearied with the rack of emotion. - "Paul Faber, Surgeon", George MacDonald.