Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tray divided into small compartments in which large types of wood are ranged.
- noun A rack or small frame, usually ornamented, in which letters, arranged as answered and unanswered or otherwise, are kept.
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Examples
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‘You wrote a letter to a Miss Somebody; I saw it in the letter-rack.’
A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006
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I remember once taking a tramp in your glorious Surrey hills, thinking of nothing but gorse and skylarks, when I came out on a vast circle of land, and over me lifted a vast, voiceless structure, tier above tier of seats, as huge as a Roman amphitheatre and as empty as a new letter-rack.
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I remember once taking a tramp in your glorious Surrey hills, thinking of nothing but gorse and skylarks, when I came out on a vast circle of land, and over me lifted a vast, voiceless structure, tier above tier of seats, as huge as a Roman amphitheatre and as empty as a new letter-rack.
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"Why, you know that letter-rack of silver cardboard that I have been making for her birthday, and counted so on giving her, isn't finished."
A Missionary Twig Emma L. Burnett
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The letter-rack was completed in good time, and presented.
A Missionary Twig Emma L. Burnett
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As for Grim, he was so jolly anxious that he could not tackle any more poems, but divided his time between ices at Hooper's and loafing round the letter-rack for Hilda's answer.
Acton's Feud A Public School Story Frederick Swainson
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She was sadly disappointed, as she had been looking forward for several weeks to the time when she should have the pleasure of presenting the nicely-made letter-rack to her cousin.
A Missionary Twig Emma L. Burnett
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Alice and the letter-rack now absorbed most of her thoughts.
A Missionary Twig Emma L. Burnett
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From force of habit, Rutherford glanced at the letter-rack on the wall at the foot of the stairs.
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He snatched it covetously from the letter-rack, and carried it upstairs to his room.
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