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rackEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From Middle English rakke, rekke, from Middle Dutch rac, recke, rec (Dutch rek), see rekken.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗rackEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From Old English reċċan (“to stretch out, extend”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗rackEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
From Middle English reken, from Old Norse reka (“to be drifted, tost”) The noun is from Middle English rak, rakke, from Middle English rek (“drift; thing tossed ashore; jetsam”), from the verb.
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Inherited from Middle English rakken.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗rackEnglish (en) · Etymology 5Source text
See rack (“that which stretches”), or rock (verb).
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rackEnglish (en) · Etymology 7Source text
Uncertain. Perhaps a contraction of rabbock, an alteration ( + -ock) of rabbit.
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Chambers (1908)
1908- RackEnglish · e-38699-5003
Rack, rak, n. an instrument for racking or extending: an engine for stretching the body in order to extort a confession, hence (fig.) extreme pain, anxiety, or doubt: a framework on which articles are arranged, as hat-ra
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Rack, rak, n. same as Wrack=Wreck—now used only in the phrases Go to rack, Go to rack and ruin. [Cf. the next word.]
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Rack, rak, n. thin or broken clouds drifting across the sky.—v.i. to drift, to drive. [Wrack; cf. Ice. rek.]
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Rack, rak, v.t. to strain or draw off from the lees, as wine.—ns. Rack′ing-can, a vessel from which wine can be drawn without disturbing the lees; Rack′ing-cock, -fau′cet, a cock used in drawing off liquour from a cask;
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Rack, rak, n. (prov.) the neck and spine of a fore-quarter of veal or mutton: the neck of mutton or pork.
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Rack, rak, n. the gait of a horse between a trot and a gallop.—n. Rack′er, a horse that moves in this gait. [Perh. rack, to drift, or rock.]
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Rack, rak, n. same as Arrack.—Rack punch, a punch made with arrack.
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Rack, rak, n. a young rabbit. [Orig. unknown.]
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