armrack

noun

Etymology

From arm + rack.

  1. derived from rek
  2. inherited from rak
  3. derived from reka
  4. inherited from reken
  5. compounded as armrack — “arm + rack

Definitions

  1. A frame, generally vertical, for holding small arms.

    • [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.
    • It was a long time since Tunku Allang had had ammunition for the score or so of old muskets rusting in their arm-racks in the audience-hall.

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