rack

Noun

• a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately

• a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body

• a support for displaying various articles
  • the newspapers were arranged on a rack
    

• an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims

• the destruction or collapse of something
  • wrack and ruin
    

• rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton

• framework for holding objects

Verb

• torture on the rack

• seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block

• work on a rack
  • rack leather
    

• torment emotionally or mentally

• draw off from the lees
  • rack wine
    

• fly in high wind

• run before a gale

• obtain by coercion or intimidation
  • They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss
    
  • They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him
    

• put on a rack and pinion
  • rack a camera
    

• stretch to the limits
  • rack one's brains
    

• go at a rack
  • the horses single-footed
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  single-foot , stand , wheel , wrack , torment , torture , excruciate , scud , extort , squeeze , gouge , wring