rack

Definitions

• A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other
• Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
• (historical) A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
• (nautical) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
• (nautical) A bunk.
• (nautical) Sleep.
• A distaff.
• (mechanical engineering) A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion#, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it.
• (mechanical engineering) A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow.
• A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
• A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
• A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
• (billiards) A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
• (slang) A woman's breasts.
• (climbing) A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.
• (climbing) A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
• A grate on which bacon is laid.
• (obsolete) That which is extorted; exaction.
• (algebra) A set with a distributive binary operation whose result is unique.
• (British) A thousand pounds (£1,000), especially such proceeds of crime