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A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other
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Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
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A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
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A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
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A bunk.
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(by extension) Sleep.
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A distaff.
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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.
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A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow.
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A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
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A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
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A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
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I bought a rack of lamb at the butcher's yesterday.
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A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
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A woman's breasts.
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A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.
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abseil rack
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A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
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I used almost a full rack on the second pitch.
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A grate on which bacon is laid.
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That which is extorted; exaction.
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A set with a distributive binary operation whose result is unique.
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A thousand pounds (£1,000), especially such proceeds of crime