Definition of "gas-bracket" [gas-bracket]

• A pipe, frequently curved or jointed, projecting from the wall of a room, the body of a gaselier, etc., for the distribution of illuminating gas. The burner is fitted upon it. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "She was standing beneath the gas-bracket, one hand raised to the handle."
• "He mounted the stairs -- there was not a nail in his boots which did not know each shred of fraying timber in them -- thridded an unerring way through the outspread lumber on the floor to the stand at which he commonly worked, set the gas-bracket blazing there, and began to stack type as if for dear life, but without a copy."
• "Without waiting for a reply he entered the room whence she had emerged and, striking another match, applied it to a gas-bracket."