mooring rack

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a row of piles, connected at the tops, to which ships or boats can be moored.

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Let’s start with some etymology: What are the origins of the typographical word “bracket”?

Bake on the center rack of the oven for 40 to 50 minutes or until set.
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The clever crooks managed to rack up $2 million in profits over a year, Ares said.
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Whereas other brands purchase their barrels from big producers more or less off the rack, The Macallan starts in the forest.
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He put them in glamorous gowns, yes, but also encouraged them to buy trendier ready-to-wear labels off the rack.
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Jenny and Ichabod rack their brains before eventually deciding to hunt for the missing Franklin documents at the archives.
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The whole thing begins to have a jigsaw look, like a child's toy rack with wooden soldiers on it, expanding and contracting.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
They were condemned on confessions of Islamism and paganism, extorted by the rack, and afterwards retracted.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
The equilibrium valve is unchanged, except that the rack is taken out and a link put in.
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The exhaust-valve is exactly as when it was put in, worked by a rack-and-tooth segment.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2)|Francis Trevithick
Best of all, there hung upon the wall of this chamber a little book-rack filled with well-selected literature.
Dorothy at Skyrie|Evelyn Raymond