racking table (rak ingta"bl)

A wooden table or frame used in Cornwall for washing tin ore, which is distributed over the surface of the table with a solid rake or hard brush, whence the name: sometimes corrupted into ragging - table. See framing - table. rackle (rak'l), v. t. and i.; pret. and pp. rackled, ppr. rackling. [Perhaps a var. of rattlel; but cf. racket1.] To rattle. [Prov. Eng.] rackle (rak'l), n. [Cf. rackle, v., racket1.] Noisy talk. [Prov. Eng.] rackoont, n. An obsolete spelling of racoon. rack-pin (rak'pin), n. A small rack-stick. rack-rail (rak'rāl), n. A rail laid alongside the bearing-rails of a rai railway, having cogs into which works a cog-wheel on the locomotive: now used only in some forms of inclined-plane railway. a rack-railway (rak'rāl"wā), n. A railway opcrated with the aid of rack-rails. The first rack - railway in France was opened lately at Langres. Nature , XXXVII. 328. [ rack1 , v . , + rent2 ,