same as arrack.-the neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton.-a wreck; destruction.-thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky.-to fly, as vapor or broken clouds.-to amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace; -- said of a horse.-a fast amble.-to draw off from the lees or sediment, as wine.-an instrument or frame used for stretching, extending, retaining, or displaying, something.-an engine of torture, consisting of a large frame, upon which the body was gradually stretched until, sometimes, the joints were dislocated; -- formerly used judicially for extorting confessions from criminals or suspected persons.-an instrument for bending a bow.-a grate on which bacon is laid.-a frame or device of various construction for holding, and preventing the waste of, hay, grain, etc., supplied to beasts.-a frame on which articles are deposited for keeping or arranged for display; as, a clothes rack; a bottle rack, etc.-a piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes; -- called also rack block. also, a frame to hold shot.-a frame or table on which ores are separated or washed.-a frame fitted to a wagon for carrying hay, straw, or grain on the stalk, or other bulky loads.-a distaff.-a bar with teeth on its face, or edge, to work with those of a wheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive it or be driven by it.-that which is extorted; exaction.-to extend by the application of force; to stretch or strain; specifically, to stretch on the rack or wheel; to torture by an engine which strains the limbs and pulls the joints.-to torment; to torture; to affect with extreme pain or anguish.-to stretch or strain, in a figurative sense; hence, to harass, or oppress by extortion.-to wash on a rack, as metals or ore.-to bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.