Something to hang your hat on
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Definition
| • | 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. |
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