Racker

rack ¹  (rk)

n.

1.

a. A framework or stand in or on which to hold, hang, or display various articles: a trophy rack; a rack for baseball bats in the dugout; a drying rack for laundry.

b. Games A triangular frame for arranging billiard or pool balls at the start of a game.

c. A receptacle for livestock feed.

d. A frame for holding bombs in an aircraft.

2. Slang A bunk; a bed.

3. A toothed bar that meshes with a gearwheel, pinion, or other toothed machine part.

4.

a. A state of intense anguish.

b. A cause of intense anguish.

5. An instrument of torture on which the victim's body was stretched.

6. A pair of antlers.

tr.v. racked, rack·ing, racks

1. To place (billiard balls, for example) in a rack.

2. To cause great physical or mental suffering to: Pain racked his entire body. See Synonyms at afflict.

3. To torture by means of the rack.

Phrasal Verbs:

rack out Slang

To go to sleep or get some sleep.

rack up Informal

To accumulate or score: rack up points.

Idiom:

on the rack

Under great stress.

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[Middle English rakke, probably from Middle Dutch rec, framework; see reg- in Indo-European roots.]

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racker n.

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rack ²  (rk)

n.

A fast, flashy, four-beat gait of a horse in which each foot touches the ground separately and at equal intervals.

intr.v. racked, rack·ing, racks

To go or move in a rack.

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[Origin unknown.]

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rack ³  (rk)

n.

A thin mass of wind-driven clouds.

intr.v. racked, rack·ing, racks

To be driven by the wind; scud: low clouds racking by.

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[Middle English rak, probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Swedish rak, wreckage.]

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rack ⁴  (rk)

n.

Variant of wrack¹.

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rack ⁵  (rk)

n. & v.

Variant of wrack².

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rack ⁶  (rk)

tr.v. racked, rack·ing, racks

To drain (wine or cider) from the dregs.

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[Middle English rakken, from Old Provençal arracar, from raca, stems and husks of grapes.]

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rack ⁷  (rk)

n.

1.

a. A wholesale rib cut of lamb or veal between the shoulder and the loin.

b. A retail rib cut of lamb or veal, prepared for roasting or for rib chops.

2. The neck and upper spine of mutton, pork, or veal.

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[Probably from rack.]

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Racket, Racquet, Racquette, Roquet or Racker an assembly of high society at a private house, 1745; a popular, noisy or confused group; also the noise made by such a group.

Examples: racquet of mirth and war, 1822; racket of society, 1886.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

racker - an attendant who puts pool or billiard balls into a rack attendant, attender, tender - someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another