picture rod

English

Alternative forms

picture-rod

Noun

picture rod (plural picture rods)

  1. A picture rail
    • 1899, E. W. Hornung, The Amateur Cracksman, Nine Points of the Law:
      "If you take it like that," he chuckled, "how will old Johnson take it? Go out and hang himself to his own picture-rods, I hope!"

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