These are the meanings of the letters RABCK when you unscramble them.
- Back (a.)
Being at the back or in the rear; distant; remote; as, the back door; back settlements.
- Back (a.)
Being in arrear; overdue; as, back rent.
- Back (a.)
Moving or operating backward; as, back action.
- Back (adv.)
(Of time) In times past; ago.
- Back (adv.)
Away from contact; by reverse movement.
- Back (adv.)
In a state of restraint or hindrance.
- Back (adv.)
In arrear; as, to be back in one's rent.
- Back (adv.)
In concealment or reserve; in one's own possession; as, to keep back the truth; to keep back part of the money due to another.
- Back (adv.)
In return, repayment, or requital.
- Back (adv.)
In withdrawal from a statement, promise, or undertaking; as, he took back0 the offensive words.
- Back (adv.)
In, to, or toward, the rear; as, to stand back; to step back.
- Back (adv.)
To a former state, condition, or station; as, to go back to private life; to go back to barbarism.
- Back (adv.)
To the place from which one came; to the place or person from which something is taken or derived; as, to go back for something left behind; to go back to one's native place; to put a book back after reading it.
- Back (n.)
A ferryboat. See Bac, 1.
- Back (n.)
A garment for the back; hence, clothing.
- Back (n.)
A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
- Back (n.)
A support or resource in reserve.
- Back (n.)
An extended upper part, as of a mountain or ridge.
- Back (n.)
In human beings, the hinder part of the body, extending from the neck to the end of the spine; in other animals, that part of the body which corresponds most nearly to such part of a human being; as, the back of a horse, fish, or lobster.
- Back (n.)
The keel and keelson of a ship.
- Back (n.)
The outward or upper part of a thing, as opposed to the inner or lower part; as, the back of the hand, the back of the foot, the back of a hand rail.
- Back (n.)
The part of a cutting tool on the opposite side from its edge; as, the back of a knife, or of a saw.
- Back (n.)
The part opposed to the front; the hinder or rear part of a thing; as, the back of a book; the back of an army; the back of a chimney.
- Back (n.)
The part opposite to, or most remote from, that which fronts the speaker or actor; or the part out of sight, or not generally seen; as, the back of an island, of a hill, or of a village.
- Back (n.)
The upper part of a lode, or the roof of a horizontal underground passage.
- Back (v. i.)
To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
- Back (v. i.)
To bet on the success of; -- as, to back a race horse.
- Back (v. i.)
To change from one quarter to another by a course opposite to that of the sun; -- used of the wind.
- Back (v. i.)
To drive or force backward; to cause to retreat or recede; as, to back oxen.
- Back (v. i.)
To get upon the back of; to mount.
- Back (v. i.)
To make a back for; to furnish with a back; as, to back books.
- Back (v. i.)
To move or go backward; as, the horse refuses to back.
- Back (v. i.)
To place or seat upon the back.
- Back (v. i.)
To stand still behind another dog which has pointed; -- said of a dog.
- Back (v. i.)
To support; to maintain; to second or strengthen by aid or influence; as, to back a friend.
- Back (v. i.)
To write upon the back of; as, to back a letter; to indorse; as, to back a note or legal document.
- Bark (n.)
Alt. of Barque
- Bark (n.)
The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog; a similar sound made by some other animals.
- Bark (v. i.)
To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.
- Bark (v. i.)
To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs; -- said of some animals, but especially of dogs.
- Bark (v. t.)
To abrade or rub off any outer covering from; as to bark one's heel.
- Bark (v. t.)
To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark; as, to bark the roof of a hut.
- Bark (v. t.)
To girdle. See Girdle, v. t., 3.
- Bark (v. t.)
To strip the bark from; to peel.
- carb (unknown)
Sorry. I don't have the meaning of this word.
- Cark (n.)
A noxious or corroding care; solicitude; worry.
- Cark (v. i.)
To be careful, anxious, solicitous, or troubles in mind; to worry or grieve.
- Cark (v. t.)
To vex; to worry; to make by anxious care or worry.
- Crab (a.)
A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
- Crab (a.)
A crab apple; -- so named from its harsh taste.
- Crab (a.)
A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
- Crab (a.)
A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
- Crab (a.)
A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
- Crab (a.)
A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
- Crab (a.)
Sour; rough; austere.
- Crab (n.)
One of the brachyuran Crustacea. They are mostly marine, and usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or carapace. The abdomen is small and curled up beneath the body.
- Crab (n.)
The zodiacal constellation Cancer.
- Crab (v. i.)
To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel.
- Crab (v. t.)
To beat with a crabstick.
- Crab (v. t.)
To make sour or morose; to embitter.
- kbar (unknown)
Sorry. I don't have the meaning of this word.
- Rack (a.)
A bar with teeth on its face, or edge, to work with those of a wheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive it or be driven by it.
- Rack (a.)
A distaff.
- Rack (a.)
A frame fitted to a wagon for carrying hay, straw, or grain on the stalk, or other bulky loads.
- Rack (a.)
A frame on which articles are deposited for keeping or arranged for display; as, a clothes rack; a bottle rack, etc.
- Rack (a.)
A frame or device of various construction for holding, and preventing the waste of, hay, grain, etc., supplied to beasts.
- Rack (a.)
A frame or table on which ores are separated or washed.
- Rack (a.)
A grate on which bacon is laid.
- Rack (a.)
A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes; -- called also rack block. Also, a frame to hold shot.
- Rack (a.)
An engine of torture, consisting of a large frame, upon which the body was gradually stretched until, sometimes, the joints were dislocated; -- formerly used judicially for extorting confessions from criminals or suspected persons.
- Rack (a.)
An instrument for bending a bow.
- Rack (a.)
An instrument or frame used for stretching, extending, retaining, or displaying, something.
- Rack (a.)
That which is extorted; exaction.
- Rack (n.)
A fast amble.
- Rack (n.)
A wreck; destruction.
- Rack (n.)
Same as Arrack.
- Rack (n.)
The neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton.
- Rack (n.)
Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky.
- Rack (v.)
To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace; -- said of a horse.
- Rack (v. i.)
To fly, as vapor or broken clouds.
- Rack (v. t.)
To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
- Rack (v. t.)
To draw off from the lees or sediment, as wine.
- Rack (v. t.)
To extend by the application of force; to stretch or strain; specifically, to stretch on the rack or wheel; to torture by an engine which strains the limbs and pulls the joints.
- Rack (v. t.)
To stretch or strain, in a figurative sense; hence, to harass, or oppress by extortion.
- Rack (v. t.)
To torment; to torture; to affect with extreme pain or anguish.
- Rack (v. t.)
To wash on a rack, as metals or ore.