Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A piece of mechanism in which a rack is used; a rack and pinion or the like. See cut under
rack .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Any mechanism having a rack, as a rack and pinion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any
mechanism with arack , such as arack and pinion .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
rack + work
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Examples
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In taking portraits, if you are not an adept in obtaining a focus, cut a slip of newspaper about four inches long, and one and a half wide, and turn up one end so as it may be held between the lips, taking care that the rest be presented quite flat to the camera; with the help of a magnifying-glass set a correct focus to this, and afterwards draw in the tube carrying the lenses about one-sixteenth of a turn of the screw of the rackwork.
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