Verb

(es)

To hurry; to perform a task with great haste.

* (Thomas Sprat) (1635–1730)

Theynever think it to be a part of religion to rush into the office of princes and ministers.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-16, author= John Vidal

, volume=189, issue=10, page=8, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas , passage=Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.}}

(label) To flow or move forward rapidly or noisily.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Like to an entered tide, they all rush by.

* {{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)

, chapter=5, title= The Lonely Pyramid , passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.}}

To dribble rapidly.

To run directly at another player in order to block or disrupt play.

(label) To cause to move or act with unusual haste.

To make a swift or sudden attack.

(label) To swiftly attach to without warning.

(label) To transport or carry quickly.

To roquet an object ball to a particular location on the lawn.

To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.

Verb

(en verb)

To place in or hang on a rack.

To torture (someone) on the rack.

* Alexander Pope

He was racked and miserably tormented.

* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 228:

As the poet Sir Thomas Wyatt later recalled, his father, Henry VII's jewel-house keeper Henry Wyatt, had been racked on the orders of Richard III, who had sat there and watched.

To cause (someone) to suffer pain.

* Milton

Vaunting aloud but racked with deep despair.

(figurative) To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.

* Shakespeare

Try what my credit can in Venice do; / That shall be racked even to the uttermost.

* Spenser

The landlords there shamefully rack their tenants.

* Fuller

They rack a Scripture simile beyond the true intent thereof.

(billiards, snooker, pool) To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.

(slang) To strike a male in the groin with the knee.

To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.

(mining) To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.

(nautical) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.

Verb

(en verb)

stretch joints of a person

Verb

(en verb)

To fly, as vapour or broken clouds

Verb

(en verb)

(brewing) To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.

* Francis Bacon

It is in common practice to draw wine or beer from the lees (which we call racking ), whereby it will clarify much the sooner.

Verb

(en verb)

(of a horse) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.

(Fuller)