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rack

/ɹæk/ noun C2
  1. Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky. (uncountable)
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Our party is complete,” said Holmes, buttoning up his pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 23 · B2
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 Count of Monte Cristo, p. 242 · C1
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.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 27 · C1

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