Rack

Ay, but I fear you speak upon the rack, / Where men enforced do speak anything.

During the troubles of the fifteenth century, a rack was introduced into the Tower, and was occasionally used under the plea of political necessity.

Chief Stevens approached my rack and repeatedly ordered me to vacate my rack and report to the working party.

By the time I had unpacked my sea bag, made my rack, and finished a good long hot shower, it was late in the evening.

I took off my helmet, sat it gently down at the head of my rack on the wooden deck, plopped my butt down on my rack again, and began taking off my stateside assbusting boots.

Do I have to do this now? Like, I really need to get some rack.

Just beyond that station the first step is encountered and the rack resorted to, taking the line on a gradient of 1 in 9 over a steeply inclined bridge and through a spiral tunnel.

The ladder-type Riggenbach rack is the one in use on both systems.

I bought a rack of lamb at the butcher's yesterday.

The Par quadratum […] Their Use is to bend the Racks of the Loins with a right Motion forward or downward, but when one only acts, it draws the Loins to one Side somewhat downwards.

Racks, the bones of a dead horse. Term used by horse-slaughterers.

rappel rack

abseil rack

I used almost a full rack on the second pitch.

He was racked and miserably tormented.

As the poet Sir Thomas Wyatt later recalled, his father, Henry VII's jewel-house keeper Henry Wyatt, had been racked on the orders of Richard III, who had sat there and watched.

Vaunting aloud but racked with deep despair.

Try what my credit can in Venice do; / That shall be racked even to the uttermost.

The landlords there most shamefully rack their tenants.

Grant that I may never rack a Scripture Similie, beyond the true intent thereof.

Foꝛ when we heare one racke the name of God,/Abiure the ſcriptures, and his Sauiour Chꝛiſt...

Bike7125 raises a great point suggesting that cups could have been recommended "optional" equipment in school PE. I never got racked by a baseball or softball, but we did have a gym teacher, who insisted on a weekly session of a "cruelty sport" called bombardment. The idea was to throw basketballs at a line of guys, and try to hit them. (Guess where most gym bullys aimed!)

He racked three boxes of gum!

my buddy used to go racking for spray paint at the home despot. then a banger shot him in the head one night.^([sic])

Post-and-lintel construction racks easily.

The racking strength of a wall system is defined in terms of its ability to resist horizon­tal inplane shear forces. The shear, or racking, forces which act on wail systems arise primarily from wind.

The winds in the upper region, which move the clouds above, which we call the rack, […] pass without noise.

And the night rack came rolling up.

Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish ... That which is now a horse ... The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct

It is in common practice to draw wine or beer from the lees (which we call racking), whereby it will clarify much the sooner.

The Darwin administrator, J.C. Archer, with great ceremony, turned on the flow to rack the precious golden stuff into casks.

The other two (only racking, no thorough-paced protestants) watched their opportunity to run away

All goes to rack.

Now, sir, you would say a skin is a skin, we say it is a ' whole,' or a 'half,' or a 'quarter,' or a 'rack,' or a 'sucker. Suckers are skins of infant rabbits, and of little value. Eight racks are equal to one whole.

The skin of a sucker is white, of a quarter, black and white striped, of a rack all black, and of a best all white.

Those would be of different shades of colour according to the time of year at which they were produced, those bred about May-day undergoing no change from their white colour, but from a white rack become a whole skin; […]

Rabbit skins are sorted into wholes, halves, quarters, racks, and suckers, or very small skins.

If it was my officers wanted a stone jar of rack or a dozen of bottled ale, I might manage 'em, but I'm nowhere with sacks.