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armrack

armrack noun: a frame, generally vertical, for holding small arms.

Noun

armrack (plural armracks)

  1. A frame, generally vertical, for holding small arms.
    • The Carbines must be regularly place in the arm rack, according to each man’s number in the Guard.1803, General Standing Orders for Third, or Prince of Wales’s Dragoon Guards, Edinburgh: R. Allan, Instructions for the Guard, Article 16, pp. 162-163
    • [The carbines] disappeared mysteriously from locked arm-racks, and in the hot weather when all the barrack doors and windows were opened they vanished like puffs of their own smoke.1890 May 17, Rudyard Kipling, “The Man Who Was”, in Littel’s Living Age, volume 185, number 2394, page 443

Forms of armrack

pluralarmracks

Origin of armrack

From arm + rack.

Questions about armrack

What does armrack mean?
Armrack means a frame, generally vertical, for holding small arms.
What part of speech is armrack?
Armrack is a noun.
What is the plural of armrack?
The plural of armrack is armracks.

Words near armrack in the dictionary

  1. armpits
  2. armpitted
  3. armpitty
  4. armplate
  5. armplates
  6. armrack
  7. armracks
  8. armrest
  9. armrests
  10. armring
  11. armrings

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