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ˈtoast-rack
[f. toast n.1 + rack n.2 4.]
A contrivance for holding dry toast, keeping each piece on edge and separate. Also transf., a vehicle, esp. a tram, having full-width seats and (usu.) open sides; also attrib.
1801Nemnich Waaren-Lexicon 687/1 Toast rack or waggon, ein Tohstgestell. 1807Specif. of Roberts' Patent No. 3083 So constructing a toast rack or tray that it may be extended or contracted at pleasure. 1861N. A. Woods Pr. of Wales in Canada 104 The chief..wore something like a beadwork toastrack on his head. 1905Westm. Gaz. 30 May 4/2 A vehicle of the ‘toast-rack’ type familiar on the Continent, consisting simply of a platform with seats going transversely. 1941Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 77 Toastrack, one of the old-style footboard trams still used in Sydney. 1957Railway Mag. June 427/2 There are now 24 bogie motor cars and 25 bogie trailers. Toastrack and saloon types exist in both categories; the former, as befits a holiday line, are in the majority. 1966P. Mathers Trap 190 A tram now, it would be a toast-rack with ten or so compartments with the only physical intercommunication along the outside footboards, and the concertina doors. 1970Railway Mag. Oct. 587/2 Only horse traction was used, and there were two four-wheel cars, a closed one for winter service, and an open ‘toast-rack’, used in the summer. 1976Country Life 22 Jan. 191/4 Single-deck ‘toast⁓rack’ trams, so named because they closely resembled that table implement on wheels. |