Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A contrivance for holding dry toast, each slice being held on edge between slender rings or supports of wire, etc.

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Examples

  • “Just pass me that toast-rack,” I said, and shut him up completely.

    First Men in the Moon Herbert George 2006

  • I could not and would not put up with a frightful German baron of music, with a polished card like a toast-rack, whom the Major tried to impress on me.

    Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

  • Johnny passing me the toast-rack, the marmalade ...

    Madam Will You Talk Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1967

  • If you do own the genuine thing, an electro-plated toast-rack will be all-sufficient.

    Leonie of the Jungle Joan Conquest

  • S ` lam prepared to put the toast-rack itself on the charcoal fire, with the bread in it, thus to "toast": the toast-rack we made ourselves, too, out of some old wire.

    In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory

  • It had sneaked up to a magnificent toast-rack with stabling accommodation for about eight pieces, given by somebody with a title.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 29, 1914 Various

  • Put the toast in a toast-rack or stack it on a hot plate.

    Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Management Ontario. Ministry of Education

  • "Just," said Dinah, and put the last piece in the toast-rack.

    The Sea of Adventure Blyton, Enid 1948

  • Pass that toast-rack, will you ... and the marmalade. '

    Coot Club Ransome, Arthur 1934

  • Never mind, sweetheart, that Essay might be a sauce-pan some day -- or at any rate a cheap toast-rack.

    Gilbert Keith Chesterton Maisie Ward 1932

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