Armrack
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Armrack is a noun meaning A frame, generally vertical, for holding small arms.
Meaning
A frame, generally vertical, for holding small arms.
Example Sentences
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.
[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.
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 must be regularly place in the arm rack, according to each man’s number in the Guard.
Word Forms
- armracks
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include armbrace, armature, armlet, armamentary, armload, armoire.
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