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Definition of Bookrack
1. a support for an open book [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bookrack
Literary usage of Bookrack
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook in Woodwork and Carpentry: For Teachers and Normal Schools by Charles Albert King (1911)
"Dovetailed bookrack. See C, Topic 92. New subject: Dovetailing. Wood: Oak, or
poplar. Preparatory. A. Make working drawing. Cut a piece long enough to ..."
2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1873)
"Then we have a very nice little bookrack which contains volumes of poetry, ...
This is an adjustable bookrack, and we make it a point to have in it the ..."
3. Annual Conference Proceedings of the American Library Association by American Library Association. Conference, American Library Association (1911)
"I always keep a collection of these little books in a special bookrack so I can
lay my hands on them at any moment. They comprise such titles as "Pigs is ..."
4. Addresses and Proceedings by National Education Association of the United States, National Teachers' Association (U.S.)., American Normal School Association, Central College Association (1914)
"During that time the sewing girls each worked on a plain dress, the cooking girls
on preparing and serving special dishes, and each boy on a bookrack for a ..."
5. General Methods of Teaching in Elementary Schools: Including the Kindergarten by Samuel Chester Parker (1919)
"Or, if they finish their occupation lesson, they get a supplementary reader from
the bookrack " in another corner," and read to themselves ; later they have ..."
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