Word Meanings - RACKING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Spun yarn used in racking ropes.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RACKING)

• Torture
• Agony
• anguish
• racking
• torment

Related words: (words related to RACKING)

• TORMENTFUL
  Full of torment; causing, or accompainied by, torment; excruciating. Tillotson.
• TORTURE
  Etym: 1. To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex. 2. To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person. Shak. 3. To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort. Jar. Taylor. 4. To keep on the stretch, as
• TORMENTOR
  An implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels. Hebert. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, torments; one who inflicts penal anguish or tortures. Jer. Taylor. Thoughts, my tormentors, armed with
• AGONY
  1. Violent contest or striving. The world is convulsed by the agonies of great nations. Macaulay. 2. Pain so extreme as to cause writhing or contortions of the body, similar to those made in the athletic contests in Greece; and hence, extreme pain
• RACKETY
  Making a tumultuous noise.
• RACKABONES
  A very lean animal, esp. a horse.
• TORMENTIL
  A rosaceous herb , the root of which is used as a powerful astringent, and for alleviating gripes, or tormina, in diarrhea. (more info) tormentilla, Sp. tormentila; all fr. L. tormentum pain. So called
• TORMENT
  1. To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating misery upon, either of body or mind; to torture. " Art thou come hither to torment us before our time " Matt. viii. 29. 2. To pain; to distress; to afflict. Lord, my servant lieth at
• RACK-RENTER
  1. One who is subjected to playing rack-rent. 2. One who exacts rack-rent.
• 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.
• TORMENTISE
  Torture; torment. Chaucer.
• TORMENTER
  1. One who, or that which, torments; a tormentor. 2. An executioner. Chaucer.
• RACKER
  1. One who racks. 2. A horse that has a racking gait.
• RACKETT
  An old wind instrument of the double bassoon kind, having ventages but not keys.
• ANGUISH
  Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress. But they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage. Ex. vi. 9. Anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child. Jer. iv. 31. Note: Rarely used in the
• RACK-RENT
  A rent of the full annual value of the tenement, or near it; an excessive or unreasonably high rent. Blackstone.
• RACKET-TAILED
  Having long and spatulate, or racket-shaped, tail feathers.
• TORMENTRY
  Anything producing torment, annoyance, or pain. Chaucer.
• RACK
  A bar with teeth on its face, or edge, to work with those of a wheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive it or be driven by it. 3. That which is extorted; exaction. Sir E. Sandys. Mangle rack. See under Mangle. n. -- Rack block. See def. 1
• 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.
• TRACKLAYER
  Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n.
• CRACK-BRAINED
  Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy. Pope.
• 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.
• CRACKLED
  Covered with minute cracks in the glaze; -- said of some kinds of porcelain and fine earthenware.
• HAYRACK
  A frame mounted on the running gear of a wagon, and used in hauling hay, straw, sheaves, etc.; -- called also hay rigging.
• THRACKSCAT
  Metal still in the mine.
• TRICKTRACK
  An old game resembling backgammon.
• CRACKSMAN
  A burglar.