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picture rod

picture rod noun: a picture rail.

Noun

picture rod (plural picture rods)

  1. A picture rail
    • "If you take it like that," he chuckled, "how will old Johnson take it? Go out and hang himself to his own picture-rods, I hope!"1899, E. W. Hornung, The Amateur Cracksman, Nine Points of the Law

Forms of picture rod

pluralpicture rods

Questions about picture rod

What does picture rod mean?
Picture rod means a picture rail.
What part of speech is picture rod?
Picture rod is a noun.
What is the plural of picture rod?
The plural of picture rod is picture rods.

Words near picture rod in the dictionary

  1. picture planes
  2. picture postcard
  3. picture postcards
  4. picture rail
  5. picture rails
  6. picture rod
  7. picture rods
  8. picture show
  9. picture shows
  10. picture sort
  11. picture sorts

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