English Dictionary

rack

/ɹæk/

verb

To place in or hang on a rack. / To torture (someone) on the rack. / To cause (someone) to suffer pain. / (figuratively) To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.

She racked the clothes in the closet.

意味（1）

To place in or hang on a rack.

意味（2）

To torture (someone) on the rack.

He was racked and miserably tormented.

意味（3）

To cause (someone) to suffer pain.

Vaunting aloud but racked with deep despair.

意味（4）

(figuratively) To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.

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

意味（5）

(billiards, snooker, pool) To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.

意味（6）

(slang, transitive) To strike in the testicles.

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!)

意味（7）

(firearms) To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.

意味（8）

(firearms) To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.

意味（9）

(mining) To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.

意味（10）

(nautical) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.

意味（11）

(structural engineering) To tend to shear a structure (that is, force it to bend, lean, or move in different directions at different points).

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.