Rack vs. Wrack

Racknoun

A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other

Racknoun

Any of various kinds of frame for holding clothes, bottles, animal fodder, mined ore, shot on a vessel, etc.

Racknoun

(nautical) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.

Racknoun

A bunk.

Racknoun

A distaff.

Racknoun

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.

Racknoun

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.

Racknoun

A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.

Racknoun

A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.

Racknoun

A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).

Racknoun

A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.

Racknoun

A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.

Racknoun

A woman's breasts.

Racknoun

A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.

Racknoun

A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.

Racknoun

A grate on which bacon is laid.

Racknoun

(obsolete) That which is extorted; exaction.

Racknoun

(algebra) A set with a distributive binary operation whose result is unique.

Racknoun

(slang) A thousand pounds (£1,000), especially such proceeds of crime

Racknoun

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

Racknoun

A fast amble.

Racknoun

(obsolete) A wreck; destruction.

Rackverb

To place in or hang on a rack.

Rackverb

To torture (someone) on the rack.

Rackverb

To cause (someone) to suffer pain.

Rackverb

(figurative) To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.

Rackverb

To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.

Rackverb

(slang) To strike a male in the testicles.

Rackverb

To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.

Rackverb

(mining) To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.

Rackverb

(nautical) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.

Rackverb

To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round

Rackverb

To stretch a person's joints.

Rackverb

To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir

Rackverb

To fly, as vapour or broken clouds

Rackverb

(brewing) To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.

Rackverb

(of a horse) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.

Racknoun

Same as Arrack.

Racknoun

The neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton.

Racknoun

A wreck; destruction.

Racknoun

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

Racknoun

A fast amble.

Racknoun

An instrument or frame used for stretching, extending, retaining, or displaying, something.

Racknoun

An instrument for bending a bow.

Racknoun

A bar with teeth on its face, or edge, to work with those of a wheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive it or be driven by it.

Racknoun

That which is extorted; exaction.

Rackverb

To fly, as vapor or broken clouds.

Rackverb

To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace; - said of a horse.

Rackverb

To draw off from the lees or sediment, as wine.

Rackverb

To extend by the application of force; to stretch or strain; specifically, to stretch on the rack or wheel; to torture by an engine which strains the limbs and pulls the joints.

Rackverb

To torment; to torture; to affect with extreme pain or anguish.

Rackverb

To stretch or strain, in a figurative sense; hence, to harass, or oppress by extortion.

Rackverb

To wash on a rack, as metals or ore.

Rackverb

To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.

Racknoun

framework for holding objects

Racknoun

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

Racknoun

the destruction or collapse of something;

Racknoun

an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims

Racknoun

a support for displaying various articles;

Racknoun

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

Rackverb

go at a rack;

Rackverb

stretch to the limits;

Rackverb

put on a rack and pinion;

Rackverb

obtain by coercion or intimidation;

Rackverb

run before a gale

Rackverb

fly in high wind

Rackverb

draw off from the lees;

Rackverb

torment emotionally or mentally

Rackverb

work on a rack;

Rackverb

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

Rackverb

torture on the rack

Racknoun

a framework, typically with rails, bars, hooks, or pegs, for holding or storing things

Racknoun

a stack of digital effects units for a guitar or other instrument.

Racknoun

a vertically barred frame for holding animal fodder

Racknoun

a cogged or toothed bar or rail engaging with a wheel or pinion, or using pegs to adjust the position of something

Racknoun

an instrument of torture consisting of a frame on which the victim was stretched by turning rollers to which the wrists and ankles were tied.

Racknoun

a triangular structure for positioning the balls in pool.

Racknoun

a single game of pool.

Racknoun

a woman's breasts

Racknoun

a set of antlers

Racknoun

a bed.

Racknoun

a horse's gait in which both hoofs on either side in turn are lifted almost simultaneously, and all four hoofs are off the ground together at certain moments.

Racknoun

a mass of high, thick, fast-moving clouds

Racknoun

a joint of meat, typically lamb, that includes the front ribs.

Rackverb

cause extreme pain, anguish, or distress to

Rackverb

torture (someone) on the rack.

Rackverb

place in or on a rack

Rackverb

move by a rack and pinion.

Rackverb

raise (rent) above a fair or normal amount.

Rackverb

oppress (a tenant) by exacting excessive rent.

Rackverb

(of a horse) move with a rack gait.

Rackverb

go away

Rackverb

(of a cloud) be driven before the wind

Rackverb

draw off (wine, beer, etc.) from the sediment in the barrel

Wracknoun

Vengeance; revenge; persecution; punishment; consequence; trouble.

Wracknoun

Ruin; destruction.

Wracknoun

The remains; a wreck.

Wracknoun

(archaic) Remnant from a shipwreck as washed ashore, or the right to claim such items.

Wracknoun

Any marine vegetation cast up on shore, especially seaweed of the genus Fucus.

Wracknoun

Weeds, vegetation or rubbish floating on a river or pond.

Wracknoun

A high flying cloud; a rack.

Wrackverb

To execute vengeance; avenge.

Wrackverb

To worry; tease; torment.

Wrackverb

(transitive) To wreck, especially a ship (usually in passive).

Wracknoun

A thin, flying cloud; a rack.

Wracknoun

Wreck; ruin; destruction.

Wracknoun

Any marine vegetation cast up on the shore, especially plants of the genera Fucus, Laminaria, and Zostera, which are most abundant on northern shores.

Wracknoun

Coarse seaweed of any kind.

Wrackverb

To rack; to torment.

Wrackverb

To wreck.

Wracknoun

dried seaweed especially that cast ashore

Wracknoun

the destruction or collapse of something;

Wracknoun

growth of marine vegetation especially of the large forms such as rockweeds and kelp

Wrackverb

smash or break forcefully;

Wrackverb

variant spelling of rack (sense 1 of the verb)

Wracknoun

any of a number of coarse brown seaweeds which grow on the shoreline, frequently each kind forming a distinct band in relation to high- and low-water marks. Many have air bladders for buoyancy.

Wracknoun

variant spelling of rack

Wracknoun

a wrecked ship; a shipwreck.

Wracknoun

wreckage.