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Definition of Tie rack
1. Noun. A rack for storing ties.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tie Rack
Literary usage of Tie rack
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual Training for Common Schools: An Organized Course in Wood-working by Eldreth Gordon Allen, Fassett Allen Cotton (1910)
"Clothes Hanger and tie rack Problem No. 2 Make of hard or soft wood and finish to
... Each pupil should make either the clothes hanger or the tie rack. as" ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence, as Administered in England and Ireland by John Pitt Taylor (1848)
"... that, were he put to tie rack, he might possibly accuse Bishop Laud, or some
other of the lords of the council as being accessories to the fact, ..."
3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1839)
"... so unnatural and painful, that though he suffered with the firmness of a
martyr, it was not in human nature to endure it long. While thus upon tie rack, ..."
4. Electrical Engineering for Electric Light Artizans and Students: (embracing by William Slingo, Arthur Brooker (1890)
"... H D. The pinion G gears into the larger •toothed wheel E, on the axis of which
is a pinion c engaging with t tie rack R of the positive carbon rod. ..."
5. Bell's British Theatre, Consisting of the Most Esteemed English Plays by John Bell (1780)
"for I am upon tie rack—Pr'ythee, goon, and inform me farther. would be to wound
it All I have left to fay is, that Fid. ..."
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