Crossword clues for roof rack
roof rack
Wiktionary
alt. A rack attached to the top of a car or other vehicle, used to hold luggage or similar items. n. A rack attached to the top of a car or other vehicle, used to hold luggage or similar items.
WordNet
n. carrier for holding luggage above the seats of a train or on top of a car [syn: luggage rack]
Wikipedia
A roof rack is a set of bars secured to the roof of a motor car. It is used to carry bulky items such as luggage, bicycles, canoes, kayaks, skis, or various carriers and containers.
There is a long history of the use of roof racks and their designs. They allow users of an automobile to transport objects on the roof of the vehicle without reducing interior space for occupants, or the cargo area volume limits such as in the typical car's trunk design.
The three most common components of a roof rack system are (side) rails (or tracks), towers which clamp or otherwise attach to the rails, and mounts, which secure the bulky items to the rack system.
Older roof racks were usually mounted directly to the gutter surrounding the roof line. More modern vehicles, which do not have gutters, can often have a roof rack installed by attaching hooks to the top of the door frames.
Some automobiles have fittings for proprietary racks which mate with reinforced lugs in the roof. Other vehicles have a factory-installed permanent roof rack. Roof racks increase air resistance and in the US, roof racks increased overall fuel consumption by approximately 1%.
Usage examples of "roof rack".
Doogie was still putting the Hummer through quick serpentine maneuvers, and at the tailgate, the monkey hanging upside down from the roof rack swung back and forth across the unbroken window, as if it were a clock pendulum.
There were fitted leather and brass steamer trunks strapped to the roof rack, and beyond the coach in Ralph's kraal of thorn bush the big white mules, all carefully matched for colour and size, were feeding on bundles of fresh grass that Ralph's servants had cut along the river bank.
A Harley was chained to a roof rack to the left of the roof service ladder on the back of the motor home.
The car directly in front of them had a Christmas tree lashed to its roof rack.
All Hyde needed to get into Czecho was a hired car, a roof rack and a pair of skis as his cover.
They removed their duffel bags from the roof rack and paid the driver.
As they were coming home from vacation, the family's luggage had blown off the roof rack and her six-year-old's new parka had flown away and reappeared crucified on the front grille of a trailing ten-wheeler.