rack
/ɹæk/ verb C2- To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
He/she/it racks · Past racked · Past participle racked · -ing form racking
Verb forms
- Base form
- rack
- He/she/it
- racks
- Past
- racked
- Past participle
- racked
- -ing form
- racking
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
Our party is complete,” said Holmes, buttoning up his pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack.
But in vain did he rack his imagination; fertile as it was, he could not devise any plan for reaching the island without companionship.
The diagrams, the violin-case, and the pipe-rack—even the Persian slipper which contained the tobacco—all met my eyes as I glanced round me.
Other matches
- rack A series of one or more shelves, stacked one ab... B2
- rack To drive C2
- rack To place in or hang on a rack. C2
- rack To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying mot... C2
- rack A fast amble. C2
- rack Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of ... C2
- rack off Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: ...
- rack out To go to sleep as a group for the night
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