rack

noun

1. a framework, grating, case, stand, etc. for holding or displaying various things: clothes rack, dish rack, pipe rack, bomb rack
2. 1. a triangular form for arranging billiard balls at the beginning of a game of pool
   2. the billiard balls as set up before the break
3. a lift used for automotive vehicles
4. a frame for holding cases of type
5. a toothed bar into which a pinion, worm gear, etc. meshes for receiving or transmitting motion, as in automotive steering systems
6. a pair of antlers
7. an instrument of torture having a frame on which the victim's body is bound and stretched until the limbs are pulled out of place
8. any great mental or physical torment, or its cause
9. a wrenching or upheaval, as by a storm

transitive verb

1. to arrange in or on a rack
2. to torture on a rack
3. to trouble, torment, or afflict: a body racked with pain
4. 1. to oppress by unfair demands, esp. by exacting exorbitant rents
   2. to raise (rents) to an exorbitant degree

noun, intransitive verb

noun

noun

intransitive verb

transitive verb

noun

1. the neck or forepart of the spine, especially of mutton or pork
2. the rib section of lamb, usually including eight or nine pairs of ribs, used for a roast or for rib chops
   in full rack of lamb