Look up: racking

1. racking
   [adj] - causing great physical or mental suffering
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2. Racking
   An unpleasant process popular during the Spanish inquisition (though not with non-Catholics, apparently). These days the word is more likely to be used to describe a fundamental winemaking operation in which the clear wine is separated from the accumulated crud at the bottom of a barrel or fermentation vessel.
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3. Racking
   The process of drawing wine off the sediment, such as lees, after fermentation and moving it into another vessel.
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4. Racking
   The distortion of a rectangular shape to a skewed parallelogram. See also: Rectangle.
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5. racking
   the loading of an assembly so as to induce deformation in shear Category: Standards, measures and testing • transferring wine from one container to another so that the clear wine is drawn off and the lees are left behind Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing ind...
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6. Racking
   Rack'ing noun (Nautical) Spun yarn used in racking ropes.
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7. racking
   wrenching adjective causing great physical or mental suffering; `a wrenching pain`
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8. Racking
   • (n.) Spun yarn used in racking ropes. • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rack
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9. racking
   (from the article `wine`) ...is usually completed in 10 to 30 days. In most cases, the major portion of the yeast cells will soon be found in the sediment, or lees. Separation ...
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10. Racking
      Roofing application method in which shingle courses are applied vertically up the roof rather than across and up. Not a recommended procedure.
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11. Racking
    The careful siphoning of the beer away from the trub.
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12. Racking
    Decanting clear juice or wine from above the sediment in a tank. This is the easiest method for getting rid of solids which have settled to the bottom in a tank. Wine tanks commonly have a built-in "racking valve" placed about 20 inches (half a meter) above the bottom valve for use in racking wines during production.
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13. racking
    The process of racking involves transfer of wine from one container, such as a barrel, to another. Carefully done, the lees may be left behind in the first barrel, resulting in a partial clarification of the wine.
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14. Racking
    Transferring the wort into another container. Beer is racked from the primary fermenter to the secondary fermenter.
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15. Racking
    `Racking` is the process of siphoning the wine or beer off the page =428 -->--> or in the case of beer off the Trub (brewing)|trub. Racking allows clarification and aids in stabilization. Wine that is allowed to age on the lees often develops "off-tastes". A racking hose or tubing i...
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