Rack Definition
- wheel
- wrack
- stand
- single-foot
- instrument of torture
- iron heel
- boot
- iron-maiden
- thumbscrew
- wooden horse
- Oregon boot
- peine forte et dure (French)
- bed of Procrustes
- water rack
- towel rack
- Ready-made. Used of clothing.
- Under great stress.
- To try hard to remember or think of something.
- ready-made
- in a very difficult or painful situation
Other Word Forms of Rack
Noun
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Rack
- off the rack
- on the rack
- rack (one's) brains
- off the rack
- on the rack
- rack one's brains
- rack up
Origin of Rack
Middle English rakken from Old Provençal arracar from raca stems and husks of grapes
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Middle English rakke probably from Middle Dutch rec framework reg- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Middle English rak probably of Scandinavian origin Swedish rak wreckage
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Probably from rack
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Origin unknown
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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