rack of lamb

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