rack6 (rak)

A dialectal form of reck. rack7+ (rak), v. t. [A dial. form for what would be reg. * retch, tell. Hall i well. IMG:content-1545.png:[blocks in formation] Berratto [It.], a boulting a sieue; racking of a Florio. horse. Borattare, to sift or boult meale. Also a racking between an amble and a trot. racks (rak), n. [ foot foremost in the galloping motion of the fore feet; that many confound the rack with the pace, the two words often being used as synonymous; and that many have mistaken the use of the words pace and amble. There is abundant evidence that the American "pace" of to-day is the "amble" of Europe ans of the last century and earlier. The motion of the hind feet is the same in the frot, the pace, and the rack. In the trot the diagonal hind and fore feet move nearly simultaneously. In the pace or amble the hind and fore feet of the same side move nearly simultaneously. See cut in next column.