单词 | pipe rack |
释义 | pipe rackn. 1. Music. A wooden framework used to support the pipes of an organ. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > parts supporting pipes foot1828 rack board1840 pipe holder1847 rack1853 pipe rack1855 rack pillar1876 boot1880 rack pin1881 1855 E. J. Hopkins Organ 39 The pipe-racks. The greater number of the pipes stand on the upperboards..a framework, therefore, is used to keep them in an erect position. 2002 Brit. Inst. Organ Stud. Reporter Oct. 7 The original extravagantly coloured pipe-rack case has been removed recently. 2. A stand or shelf for tobacco pipes. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > pipe > pipe-rack pipe rack1866 pipe stand1879 1866 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 39/2 A pipe-rack covered one wall, furnished with every imaginable engine for smoke. 1889 Cent. Mag. Apr. 888/2 Frank was taking down his pipe-rack from the space it had decorated on the parlor wall. 1978 G. Greene Human Factor vi. i. 301 He looked at the row of pipes in the pipe rack with concentration. 1992 J. Torrington Swing Hammer Swing! iii. 14 To be found in this shop with its pervasive stink of Time-rot were..brass fenders, fire-irons, fretworked pipe-racks, marquetry pieces, [etc.]. 3. A rack or support for a set of pipelines above the ground. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > oil and natural gas recovery equipment > [noun] > structure or equipment above ground or water wellhead1870 blowout preventer1916 pipe rack1948 topside1982 1948 Petroleum Handbk. (Shell Internat. Petroleum Co.) (ed. 3) v. 84 The broken-out stand is then lowered to its position on the pipe rack. 1976 W. D. Baasel Prelim. Chem. Engin. Plant Design vi. 148 Nothing should be located under pipe racks, since if leaks occur they may damage equipment. 1985 Jrnl. Operational Res. Soc. 36 771 OGX meant the existing oil line as before, a new gas line beneath the bridge deck (G), and the existing vacant pipe-rack left for a second possible oil line (X). 4. U.S. A stand made from tubular metal pipes on which items of clothing are transported or displayed for sale. Cf. pipe-rack adj.Often associated with discount sales or stores. ΚΠ 1956 Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, Mass.) 17 Feb. (advt.) Buy your suit jacket topcoat from the piperack and save! 1978 Business Week 16 Jan. 66/2 Executives were anxious to let the analyst see that the long pipe racks of polyester staple goods—jammed together in wearying sameness and starkly lit by fluorescent tubes—have now gone. 2002 Chain Store Age (Nexis) 1 Sept. 50 Local consignment shops, which often are cluttered with outdated, over-worn garments sold from pipe racks in Spartan surroundings. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1855 |
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