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!"

References

• “picture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.