rack
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How rack fits the hive
Base Score
1
Before any pangram bonus
Unique Letters
4
A C K R
Two-Letter Start
RA
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Ending
CK
Useful for cleanup scans
- 4 letters
- 4 unique letters
- RA start
- CK ending
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- rack is a four-letter word, so it is worth 1 point when accepted.
- It uses 4 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include a, c, k, r plus any remaining hive letters.
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Pronunciation
Definitions
noun
A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other
noun
Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
noun
A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
noun
A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
noun
A bunk.
noun
(by extension) Sleep.
noun
A distaff.
noun
A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion#, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it.
noun
A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow.
noun
A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
noun
A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
noun
A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
"I bought a rack of lamb at the butcher's yesterday."
noun
A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
noun
A woman's breasts.
noun
A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.
"abseil rack"
noun
A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
"I used almost a full rack on the second pitch."
noun
A grate on which bacon is laid.
noun
That which is extorted; exaction.
noun
A set with a distributive binary operation whose result is unique.
noun
A thousand pounds (£1,000), especially such proceeds of crime
verb
To place in or hang on a rack.
verb
To torture (someone) on the rack.
verb
To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
verb
To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
verb
To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
verb
To strike a male in the testicles.
verb
To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
verb
To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
verb
To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
verb
To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
verb
(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.
noun
Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
verb
To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir
verb
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.
noun
A fast amble.
verb
(of a horse) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
noun
A wreck; destruction.
noun
A young rabbit, or its skin.
noun
A clear, unsweetened aniseed-flavoured alcoholic drink, produced and consumed primarily in the Middle East
noun
The toothbrush tree, Salvadora persica.
Related Words
Same Letters
- crack
Synonyms
- luggagerack
- rackblock
- rackup
- shear