Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In organ-building, a wooden shelf placed above the wind-chests, having perforations in which the pipes are held and supported.
- noun It is also called a rack-board.
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Examples
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He was lounging upon the sofa in a purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly studied, near at hand.
Sole Music 2010
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The diagrams, the violin-case, and the pipe-rack -- even the Persian slipper which contained the tobacco -- all met my eyes as I glanced round me.
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Below this were a pipe-rack, an aneroid, and a clock with a hearty tick.
The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955
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True, there were leather saddleback chairs, a pipe-rack and a regimental photograph, but instead of sporting prints the Colonel had chosen half a dozen Chinese drawings, and the books that lined two of his walls, although they included army lists and military biographies, were for the greater part well-worn copies of Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists and poets with one or two very rare items on angling.
Scales of Justice Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1955
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Just below the window and over the desk, was a pipe-rack with pipes to fit every mood and fancy of a lonely man.
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He was lounging upon the sofa in a purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly studied, near at hand.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1950
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Near the mantel was a pipe-rack filled with fine specimens of briar-wood and meerschaum pipes.
At the Time Appointed J. N. [Illustrator] Marchand
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There they are now, hanging over the pipe-rack by the fireplace in my snuggery in dear old England.
Adventures in Many Lands Various
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He was lounging upon the sofa in a purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly studied, near at hand.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1950
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He was lounging upon the sofa in a purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly studied, near at hand.
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1948
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