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Rack Of Lamb

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Noun

1. crown roast, rack of lamb

a roast of the rib section of lamb

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Rack Of Lamb

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noun
1. 
a framework for holding, carrying, or displaying a specific load or object
a plate rack
a hat rack
a hay rack
a luggage rack
2. 
a toothed bar designed to engage a pinion to form a mechanism that will interconvert rotary and rectilinear motions
3. 
a framework fixed to an aircraft for carrying bombs, rockets, etc
4.  the rack
5. 
a cause or state of mental or bodily stress, suffering, etc; anguish; torment (esp in the phrase on the rack)
6. vulgar, slang, mainly US
a woman's breasts
7. US and Canadian (in pool, snooker, etc)
a. 
the triangular frame used to arrange the balls for the opening shot
b. 
the balls so grouped
. Brit equivalent: frame
verb (transitive)
8. 
to torture on the rack
9. Also: wrack
to cause great stress or suffering to
guilt racked his conscience
10. Also: wrack
to strain or shake (something) violently, as by great physical force
the storm racked the town
11. 
to place or arrange in or on a rack
to rack bottles of wine
12. 
to move (parts of machinery or a mechanism) using a toothed rack
13. 
to raise (rents) exorbitantly; rack-rent
14.  rack one's brains
noun
destruction; wreck (obsolete except in the phrase go to rack and ruin)
noun
another word for single-foot, a gait of the horse
noun
1. 
a group of broken clouds moving in the wind
verb
2. (intransitive)
(of clouds) to be blown along by the wind
verb (transitive)
1. 
to clear (wine, beer, etc) as by siphoning it off from the dregs
2. 
to fill a container with (beer, wine, etc)
noun
the neck or rib section of mutton, pork, or veal

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Rack Of Lamb

see synonyms of rack of lamb
noun
1. 
a framework, grating, case, stand, etc. for holding or displaying various things
clothes rack, dish rack, pipe rack, bomb rack
see also hatrack, hayrack
2. 
a. 
a triangular form for arranging billiard balls at the beginning of a game of pool
b. 
the billiard balls as set up before the break
3. 
a lift used for automotive vehicles
4. 
a frame for holding cases of type
5. 
a toothed bar into which a pinion, worm gear, etc. meshes for receiving or transmitting motion, as in automotive steering systems
6. 
a pair of antlers
7. 
an instrument of torture having a frame on which the victim's body is bound and stretched until the limbs are pulled out of place
8. 
any great mental or physical torment, or its cause
9. 
a wrenching or upheaval, as by a storm
verb transitive
10. 
to arrange in or on a rack
11. 
to torture on a rack
12. 
to trouble, torment, or afflict
a body racked with pain
13. 
a. 
to oppress by unfair demands, esp. by exacting exorbitant rents
b. 
to raise (rents) to an exorbitant degree
noun, verb intransitive
single-foot
noun
destruction; wreckage
now only in go to rack and ruin, to become ruined
noun
1. 
a broken mass of clouds blown by the wind
verb intransitive
2. 
to be blown by the wind
said of clouds
verb transitive
to draw off (cider, wine, etc.) from the dregs
noun
1. 
the neck or forepart of the spine, especially of mutton or pork
2. 
the rib section of lamb, usually including eight or nine pairs of ribs, used for a roast or for rib chops
: in full rack of lamb

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