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pipe rack

pipe rack

5.3
A stand that holds tobacco pipes to store and show them
  • noun
translation icon : soporte para pipas
  • After cleaning, he arranged his pipes neatly back on the pipe rack to showcase his collection.

Examples

  • The antique pipe rack displayed a beautiful collection of hand-carved pipes.

  • Well, say, whatever happened to that pipe rack?

    Fiction book (1992)

  • The pipe rack dumped over, didn't it?

    Fiction book (1992)

  • A toppled pipe rack is now lying on the concrete floor, twisted and bent.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • "First they killed him, probably beat him to death, and then they dumped the pipe rack on him to make it look like the pipes smashed him.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • Next to one stack of ADS, in several mangled lengths, lay the remains of the fallen pipe rack.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • If only we could've gotten some shots of the pipe rack falling, or Chuck's bleeding hands, or the blood stains on the floor...

    Fiction book (1992)

  • He carefully placed his favorite tobacco pipe on the elegant pipe rack in the living room.

Synonyms

rack
vspipe rack
205 1.2

A frame for holding or showing things

is a specific holder made for storing and showing tobacco pipes for smokers

Surface Forms

pipe rack singular
pipe racks plural

Morphology

pipe + rack

The meaning 'a stand to store and display tobacco pipes' is directly compositional from 'pipe' (a tobacco-smoking instrument) + 'rack' (a stand or frame for holding objects). This is a regular noun+noun compound with no idiomatic shift and matches common compounding patterns cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.

Etymology

Pipe rack is a simple, literal name. A rack is a small stand and a pipe is a smoking pipe, so the phrase means 'a stand to store and display smoking pipes'.