Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An official who had charge of the rack, in the days when that instrument of torture was used as a punishment or as a means of extorting confession.
Examples
“He had faced all this in his mind again and again, but it was a different thing to have the horror within arm's length; old phrases he had heard of the torture rang in his mind -- a boast of Norton's, the rackmaster, who had racked Brian, and which had been repeated from mouth to mouth -- that he had "made Brian a foot longer than God made him"; words of James”
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Rognons of Random Palavery
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Wordnik Puzzle: Ictus Aromas
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inquest, scaphism, cadaveric, antemortem, mortification, asphixiation, tardieu's spots, obital, under the harrow, rackmaster, sphacelus
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