Rack

What “Rack” means

Noun

1. A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other.
2. Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
3. A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
4. A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
5. A bunk.

Verb

1. To place in or hang on a rack.
2. To torture (someone) on the rack.
3. To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
4. To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
5. To alternately concatenate two words to magical effect.

Verb

1. To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.
2. To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.

Noun

1. Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.

Where the word comes from

From Middle English rakke, rekke, from Middle Dutch rac, recke, rec (Dutch rek), see rekken.

From Old English reċċan (“to stretch out, extend”).

From Middle English reken, from Old Norse reka (“to be drifted, tost”) The noun is from Middle English rak, rakke, from Middle English rek (“drift; thing tossed ashore; jetsam”), from the verb.

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