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Definition of "pipe-rack" []

  • 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. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "pipe-rack" in a sentence
  • "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 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."
  • "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."