rack
/ɹæk/ sustantivo B2En español: estante, estantería, perchero, potro
- A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other.
- Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
- A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
- A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
- A bunk.
- Sleep.
- A distaff.
- 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. · Holonym: rack and pinion
Plural racks
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
De la biblioteca
There is one other yet to pass through the shed, who has as it were a hundred eyes, and until he has come and gone, your life is still in peril.” At that moment the master himself entered, and having had to complain that his oxen had not been properly fed, he went up to their racks and cried out: “Why is there such a scarcity of fodder?
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.
Otras coincidencias
- rack To drive C2
- rack To place in or hang on a rack. C2
- rack desliar 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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