Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An open frame for holding plates and dishes; specifically, a frame in which dishes can be placed in a vertical position to dry after they have been washed.
- noun Any arrangement, other than simple shelves, for holding plates in any number, as the inclosed boxes, etc., in the pantries of a ship.
- noun A grooved frame for receiving photographic plates while wet, and holding them diagonally on edge to drain; a negative-rack.
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Examples
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Then, into the cell, aired high up in the wooden wall through an opening like a kitchen plate-rack: wherein there was a drunken man, not at all warm, and very wishful to know if it were morning yet.
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Opposite the broad kitchen-range was a plate-rack well filled with serviceable chinaware, and which formed the upper part of a dresser or plain deal sideboard.
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Whilst cooking is going on they will dry nicely on sheets of paper on the plate-rack.
Dr. Allinson's cookery book Comprising many valuable vegetarian recipes
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There is an uncovered deal the left wall is a dresser and a plate-rack above it containing a few pots.
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In the dining-room was an electrolier made of seven kinds of inimical colored glass, and a plate-rack from which were hung department-store steins.
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He hastened out of the kitchen, with the happy glance he never failed to give the living-room -- its red-papered walls with shiny imitation-oak woodwork; the rows of steins on the plate-rack; the imitation-oak dining-table, with a vase of newly dusted paper roses; the Morris chair, with Nelly's sewing on a tiny wicker table beside it; the large gilt-framed oleograph of
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After an agitated conference with the vice-president of the Comfy Coast Company, during which she was eloquent as an automobile advertisement regarding Mr. Wilkins's former masterpieces with their "every modern improvement, parquet floors, beam ceilings, plate-rack, hardwood trim throughout, natty and novel decorations," Una reached the zenith of salesman's virtues -- she "closed the deal."
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With her excitement dulled to a matter-of-fact hungriness, she trotted beside him to a restaurant, one of the string of Vance eating-places, a food-mill which tried to achieve originality by the use of imitation rafters, a plate-rack aligned with landscape plates, and varnished black tables for four instead of the long, marble tables which crowded the patrons together in most places of the sort.
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Chee-Chee climb the plate-rack like a sailor going up a mast.
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"Your bed on top of the plate-rack in the scullery is all ready for you," said the Doctor.
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