Word Meanings - RACKER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who racks. 2. A horse that has a racking gait.

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• HORSE-LEECHERY
  The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses.
• HORSEMAN
  A mounted soldier; a cavalryman. A land crab of the genus Ocypoda, living on the coast of Brazil and the West Indies, noted for running very swiftly. A West Indian fish of the genus Eques, as the light-horseman (E. lanceolatus). (more info) 1.
• HORSEKNOP
  Knapweed.
• HORSERAKE
  A rake drawn by a horse.
• HORSEFLESH
  1. The flesh of horses. The Chinese eat horseflesh at this day. Bacon. 2. Horses, generally; the qualities of a horse; as, he is a judge of horseflesh. Horseflesh ore , a miner's name for bornite, in allusion to its peculiar reddish color on
• RACKETY
  Making a tumultuous noise.
• HORSEPLAY
  Rude, boisterous play. Too much given to horseplay in his raillery. Dryden.
• RACKABONES
  A very lean animal, esp. a horse.
• HORSE-JOCKEY
  1. A professional rider and trainer of race horses. 2. A trainer and dealer in horses.
• HORSEMINT
  A coarse American plant of the Mint family . In England, the wild mint .
• HORSEWORM
  The larva of a botfly.
• HORSESHOE
  The Limulus of horsehoe crab. Horsehoe head , an old name for the condition of the skull in children, in which the sutures are too open, the coronal suture presenting the form of a horsehoe. Dunglison. -- Horsehoe magnet, an artificial magnet in
• HORSEWOOD
  A West Indian tree with showy, crimson blossoms.
• HORSEWHIP
  A whip for horses.
• HORSE-LITTER
  A carriage hung on poles, and borne by and between two horses. Milton.
• RACK-RENTER
  1. One who is subjected to playing rack-rent. 2. One who exacts rack-rent.
• HORSEWEED
  A composite plant , which is a common weed.
• RACKET-TAIL
  Any one of several species of humming birds of the genus Steganura, having two of the tail feathers very long and racket- shaped.
• RACKWORK
  Any mechanism having a rack, as a rack and pinion.
• HORSE-DRENCH
  1. A dose of physic for a horse. Shak. 2. The appliance by which the dose is administred.
• WRACK
  A thin, flying cloud; a rack.
• CRACKAJACK
  1. An individual of marked ability or excellence, esp. in some sport; as, he is a crackajack at tennis. 2. A preparation of popped corn, candied and pressed into small cakes.
• WIT-CRACKER
  One who breaks jests; a joker. Shak.
• REAR-HORSE
  A mantis.
• TRACKLAYER
  Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n.
• SAWHORSE
  A kind of rack, shaped like a double St. Andrew's cross, on which sticks of wood are laid for sawing by hand; -- called also buck, and sawbuck.
• CRACK-BRAINED
  Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy. Pope.
• SEA HORSE
  1. A fabulous creature, half horse and half fish, represented in classic mythology as driven by sea dogs or ridden by the Nereids. It is also depicted in heraldry. See Hippocampus. The walrus. Any fish of the genus Hippocampus. Note: In a passage
• TRACKWALKER
  A person employed to walk over and inspect a section of tracks.
• BACHARACH; BACKARACK
  A kind of wine made at Bacharach on the Rhine.
• CRACKER STATE
  Georgia; -- a nickname. See Cracker, n. 5.
• CRACKLE
  To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thorns crackle. The unknown ice that crackles underneath them. Dryden.