LekhoriLekhoriA 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.
Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
The winds in the upper region, which move the clouds above, which we call the rack, […] pass without noise.
A fast amble.
A wreck; destruction.
All goes to rack.
A young rabbit, or its skin.
Now, sir, you would say a skin is a skin, we say it is a ' whole,' or a 'half,' or a 'quarter,' or a 'rack,' or a 'sucker. Suckers are skins of infant rabbits, and of little value. Eight racks are equal to one whole.
Alternative form of arak.
If it was my officers wanted a stone jar of rack or a dozen of bottled ale, I might manage 'em, but I'm nowhere with sacks.
From Middle English rakke, rekke, from Middle Dutch rac, recke, rec (Dutch rek), see rekken.
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He was racked and miserably tormented.
To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.
To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.
To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
It is in common practice to draw wine or beer from the lees (which we call racking), whereby it will clarify much the sooner.
To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
The other two (only racking, no thorough-paced protestants) watched their opportunity to run away