Rack

rak, v. To stretch or strain to subject to violent treatment, wrest; to stretch on the rack or wheel, torment, torture to hara by exaction, exhaust. — An instrument for racking, stretching, or extending anything as, an engine of torture, on which the body of a person gradually stretched or, a wooden frame in which hay laid for horses and cattle or, a frame-work on which articles are arranged and deposited; or, (Jffaut.) a strong frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which pa es the running rigging or, (Jlach.) a straight bar with teeth on its edge to work with those of a wheel or pinion which to drive J*""** or follow [G., a rail, bar, rack, gr^mS any framework made of bars, %WM\ OD. racken, to rack, torture, ^ gggaBsg gJ^^t£„„ recken, to stretch, reach out; ^ reach, rank (q. v.), luxuriant, _ „. ratch.] — Racier, One who Rack & P"«on. racks or torments. — Racking, a. Tormenting excruciating. — Rack'-rent, n. An annual rent raised to the utmost.