Defn: a. & n. from Race, v. t. & i. Racing crab (Zoöl.), an ocypodian.
RACK
Rack, n.
Defn: Same as Arrack.
RACK Rack, n. Etym: [AS. hracca neck, hinder part of the head; cf. AS. hraca throat, G. rachen throat, E. retch.]
Defn: The neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton.
RACK
Rack, n. Etym: [See Wreck.]
Defn: A wreck; destruction. [Obs., except in a few phrases.] Rack and ruin, destruction; utter ruin. [Colloq.] — To go to rack, to perish; to be destroyed. [Colloq.] "All goes to rack." Pepys.
RACK Rack, n. Etym: [Prob. fr. Icel. rek drift, motion, and akin to reka to drive, and E. wrack, wreck. .]
Defn: Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor
in the sky. Shak.
The winds in the upper region, which move the clouds above, which we
call the rack, . . . pass without noise. Bacon.
And the night rack came rolling up. C. Kingsley.
RACK
Rack, v. i.