Noah Webster
Racking
RACK'ING, participle present tense
1. Torturing; tormenting; straining; drawing off.
2. adjective Tormenting; excruciating; as a racking pain.
RACK'ING, noun
1. Torture; a stretching on the rack.
2. Torment of the mind; anguish; as the rackings of conscience.
3. The act of stretching cloth on a frame for drying.
4. The act of drawing from the sediment, as liquors.