Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rack for holding bottles placed in it mouth downward to drain.
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Examples
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One was no other than the red-nosed Scotchman, the Eleusinian victim whom I had watched through the bottle-rack at Épernay.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Various
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Both the poisons had been placed at the bottom of a bottle-rack, and a plank had been nailed over them.
She Stands Accused 1935
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The unused portion of the arsenic had been put in a niche of a bottle-rack.
She Stands Accused 1935
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My fellow-passenger was fast asleep -- a fact which I was grateful for when I discovered propped against my bottle-rack a tiny envelope with my name upon it.
A Bid for Fortune or Dr. Nikola's Vendetta Guy Boothby 1886
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We entered a large gallery, in which a number of moulds -- made of baked earth and shaped like reversed sugar-loaves -- were ranged in lines under the beams, like bottles in a bottle-rack.
Aventures d'un jeune naturaliste. English Lucien Biart 1863
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