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wrack
Vengeance; revenge; persecution; punishment; consequence; trouble.
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noun
Vengeance; revenge; persecution; punishment; consequence; trouble.
(except in dialects) Ruin; destruction.
The remains; a wreck.
verb
To execute vengeance; avenge.
To worry; tease; torment.
verb
To place in or hang on a rack.
To torture (someone) on the rack.
To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
To strike a male in the testicles.
To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
(structural engineering) Tending to shear a structure (that is, force it to move in different directions at different points).
“Post-and-lintel construction racks easily.”
verb
To stretch a person's joints.
verb
To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir
To fly, as vapour or broken clouds
verb
To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
verb
(of a horse) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
noun
Remnant from a shipwreck as washed ashore, or the right to claim such items.
Any marine vegetation cast up on shore, especially seaweed of the genus Fucus.
Weeds, vegetation or rubbish floating on a river or pond.
A high flying cloud; a rack.
verb
To wreck, especially a ship (usually in passive).
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Post-and-lintel construction racks easily.
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