Antler vs. Rack

By Jaxson

  • Antler

    Antlers are extensions of an animal’s skull found in members of the deer family. Antlers are true bone and are a single structure. They are generally found only on males, with the exception of the reindeer/caribou. Antlers are shed and regrown each year and function primarily as objects of sexual attraction and as weapons in fights between males for control of harems.

    In contrast, horns, found on pronghorns and bovids such as sheep, goats, bison and cattle, are two-part structures. An interior of bone (also an extension of the skull) is covered by an exterior sheath made of keratin, the same material as human fingernails and toenails, grown by specialized hair follicles. Horns are never shed and continue to grow throughout the animal’s life. The exception to this rule is the pronghorn which sheds and regrows its horn sheath each year. They usually grow in symmetrical pairs.

Wikipedia
  • Antler (noun)

    A branching and bony structure on the head of deer, moose and elk, normally in pairs. They are grown and shed each year. (Compare with horn, which is generally not shed.)

    “While hiking in the woods, I found an antler from a deer.”

  • Rack (noun)

    A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other

  • Rack (noun)

    Any of various kinds of frame for holding clothes, bottles, animal fodder, mined ore, shot on a vessel, etc.

  • Rack (noun)

    A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.

  • Rack (noun)

    A bunk.

  • Rack (noun)

    A distaff.

  • Rack (noun)

    A teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a pinion, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it.

  • Rack (noun)

    A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow.

  • Rack (noun)

    A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.

  • Rack (noun)

    A cock a crossbow.

  • Rack (noun)

    A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).

  • Rack (noun)

    A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.

    “I bought a rack of lamb at the butcher’s yesterday.”

  • Rack (noun)

    A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.

  • Rack (noun)

    A woman’s breasts.

  • Rack (noun)

    A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.

    “rappel rack”

    “abseil rack”

  • Rack (noun)

    A climber’s set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.

    “I used almost a full rack on the second pitch.”

  • Rack (noun)

    A grate on which bacon is laid.

  • Rack (noun)

    That which is extorted; exaction.

  • Rack (noun)

    A set with a distributive binary operation whose result is unique.

  • Rack (noun)

    A thousand pounds (£1,000), especially such proceeds of crime

  • Rack (noun)

    Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.

  • Rack (noun)

    A fast amble.

  • Rack (noun)

    A wreck; destruction.

  • Rack (verb)

    To place in or hang on a rack.

  • Rack (verb)

    To torture (someone) on the rack.

  • Rack (verb)

    To cause (someone) to suffer pain.

  • Rack (verb)

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

  • Rack (verb)

    To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.

  • Rack (verb)

    To strike a male in the testicles.

  • Rack (verb)

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

  • Rack (verb)

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

  • Rack (verb)

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

  • Rack (verb)

    To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round

    “If you’re going to have to use it defensively, have the shotgun already loaded and ready for use. The last thing you want to have to do is rack the slide, which could give away your position, in which case it may very well be the last thing you ever do.”

  • Rack (verb)

    To stretch a person’s joints.

  • Rack (verb)

    To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir

  • Rack (verb)

    To fly, as vapour or broken clouds

  • Rack (verb)

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

  • Rack (verb)

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

Wiktionary
  • Rack (noun)

    a framework, typically with rails, bars, hooks, or pegs, for holding or storing things

    “a spice rack”

    “a letter rack”

  • Rack (noun)

    a stack of digital effects units for a guitar or other instrument.

  • Rack (noun)

    a vertically barred frame for holding animal fodder

    “a hay rack”

  • Rack (noun)

    a cogged or toothed bar or rail engaging with a wheel or pinion, or using pegs to adjust the position of something

    “a steering rack”

  • Rack (noun)

    an instrument of torture consisting of a frame on which the victim was stretched by turning rollers to which the wrists and ankles were tied.

  • Rack (noun)

    a triangular structure for positioning the balls in pool.

  • Rack (noun)

    a single game of pool.

  • Rack (noun)

    a woman’s breasts

    “that chick’s got a nice rack”

  • Rack (noun)

    a set of antlers

    “moose have the most impressive racks of all the antlered animals”

  • Rack (noun)

    a bed.

  • Rack (noun)

    a horse’s gait in which both hoofs on either side in turn are lifted almost simultaneously, and all four hoofs are off the ground together at certain moments.

  • Rack (noun)

    a mass of high, thick, fast-moving clouds

    “there was a thin moon, a rack of cloud”

  • Rack (noun)

    a joint of meat, typically lamb, that includes the front ribs.

  • Rack (verb)

    cause extreme pain, anguish, or distress to

    “he was racked with guilt”

  • Rack (verb)

    torture (someone) on the rack.

  • Rack (verb)

    place in or on a rack

    “the shoes were racked neatly beneath the dresses”

  • Rack (verb)

    move by a rack and pinion.

  • Rack (verb)

    raise (rent) above a fair or normal amount.

  • Rack (verb)

    oppress (a tenant) by exacting excessive rent.

  • Rack (verb)

    (of a horse) move with a rack gait.

  • Rack (verb)

    go away

    “‘Rack off mate, or you’re going to cop it,’ he bellowed”

  • Rack (verb)

    (of a cloud) be driven before the wind

    “a thin shred of cloud racking across the moon”

  • Rack (verb)

    draw off (wine, beer, etc.) from the sediment in the barrel

    “the wine is racked off into large oak casks”

Oxford Dictionary

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