释义 |
ˈrack-pin 1. [f. rack v.3] = rack-stick.
1832Blackw. Mag. XXXII. 471 Friend, if thou be'st not nautical, thou knowest what a rack-pin, something of the stoutest, is. 1859J. Brown Rab & F. (1862) 33, I had to brain him wi' a rack-pin. 2. [f. rack n.2] One of the pins supporting the rack-boards in an organ.
1881W. E. Dickson Pract. Organ-building 91 The rack-board..may be placed on its rack-pins, and the feet dropped into their places. |