Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

armrack

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: arm-rack
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A frame, generally vertical, for holding small arms.

Example Sentences

"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."
"[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."

Etymology

From arm + rack.

Inflected Forms

armracks (plural)

Questions

What does armrack mean?: A frame, generally vertical, for holding small arms.
Where does armrack come from?: From arm + rack.

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