Rack
To see an empty rack in your dream, signifies your preoccupation with a problem that has given you much anxiety.
To see a rack of clothes in your dream, signifies your indecisiveness and the lingering uncertainty and doubt over the faithfulness of your lover.
Dictionary definition
- n. 1: framework for holding objects
- 2: rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton
- 3: the destruction or collapse of something; "wrack and ruin" [syn: wrack, rack]
- 4: an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims [syn: rack, wheel]
- 5: a support for displaying various articles; "the newspapers were arranged on a rack" [syn: rack, stand]
- 6: a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body
- 7: a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately [syn: rack, single-foot]
- v. 1: go at a rack; "the horses single-footed" [syn: single- foot, rack]
- 2: stretch to the limits; "rack one's brains"
- 3: put on a rack and pinion; "rack a camera"
- 4: obtain by coercion or intimidation; "They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss"; "They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him" [syn: extort, squeeze, rack, gouge, wring]
- 5: run before a gale [syn: scud, rack]
- 6: fly in high wind
- 7: draw off from the lees; "rack wine"
- 8: torment emotionally or mentally [syn: torment, torture, excruciate, rack]
- 9: work on a rack; "rack leather"
- 10: seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block
- 11: torture on the rack