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English
Etymology
arm + rack
Noun
armrack (plural armracks)
- A frame, generally vertical, for holding small arms.
- 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.
1890 May 17, Rudyard Kipling, “The Man Who Was”, in Littel’s Living Age, volume 185, number 2394, page 443:[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.
1900, Joseph Conrad, chapter 40, in Lord Jim, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, page 403: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.