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Definition of Hatracks
1. hatrack [n] - See also: hatrack
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hatracks
Literary usage of Hatracks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Decimal Classification and Relative Index for Libraries and Personal Use: In ...by Melvil Dewey by Melvil Dewey (1922)
"See also 739 Bronzes, brasses bricabrac .6 Special rooms For kitchen see 643 .3;
for laundry see 648 .61 Hall and stairs hatracks, umbrella stands, ..."
2. Decimal Classification and Relativ Index for Libraries, Clippings, Notes, Etc by Melvil Dewey (1919)
"... for laundry see 648 .61 Hall and stairs hatracks, umbrella stands, etc.
.62 Drawing room Reception room Parlor .63 Library .64 Study or offis .65 Living ..."
3. Journalism Versus Art by Max Eastman (1916)
"He knows how to draw men, horses, buttons, pants, books, hatracks, seltzer bottles,
shoes, shoestrings, cats, frowns, kisses, hot-water bottles, ..."
4. The Junior High School by Guy Vernon Bennett (1919)
"... exposition and argument, when the pupils cannot even write complex, compound,
or even simple sentences! Then there is the making of hatracks, ..."
5. The Charm of the Antique by Robert Shackleton, Mrs. Elizabeth Fleming Shackleton (1914)
"... they burned everything but the two fine posts, and these they stuck full of
brass hooks, round and round, and put them in the hall for hatracks. ..."
6. Two Years in the Klondike and Alaskan Gold-fields: A Thrilling Narrative of by William B. Haskell (1898)
"Saddle Horses Wanted — ~So Cheap hatracks." Of course herds of gambling men
hurried from the Pacific coast to set up at Skagway, and, for a time, ..."
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