WordNet
n. a rack for holding a smoker's pipes
Wikipedia
Structural steel pipe racks typically support pipes, power cables and instrument cable trays in petrochemical, chemical and power plants. Occasionally, pipe racks may also support mechanical equipment, vessels and valve access platforms. Main pipe racks generally transfer material between equipment and storage or utility areas. Storage racks found in warehouses are not pipe racks, even if they store lengths of pipe.
A pipe rack is the main artery of a process unit. Pipe racks carry process and utility piping and may also include instrument and cable trays as well as equipment mounted over all of these.
Pipe racks consist of a series of transverse bents that run along the length of the pipe system, spaced at uniform intervals typically around 20 ft. To allow maintenance access under the pipe rack, the transverse bents are typically moment frames. Transverse bents are typically connected with longitudinal struts.
Usage examples of "pipe rack".
Manoeuvering his way behind a simple wooden desk, he sat down, leaned forward, and reached for a circular pipe rack partially obscured by stacks of billing forms.
On his flattop of a desk was a telephone, a leather-covered jar full of pens, a can of Field and Stream tobacco, and a pipe rack cradling four pipes.
He freed it and moved it into a clear space so it could be hauled up without catching, then untied the buoy line from his belt and secured it to the pipe rack.
A pipe rack with two rows of little hourglasses, ten to a row, their necks elongated like the neck of a Modigliani woman, some unspecified material inside, and the upper bulge of each expanded to a different size, like balloons about to take off.
A pipe rack outside the store displayed multicolored Seminole jackets and aprons.
He grabbed a prehistoric looking briar pipe from a pipe rack on the desk and dragged a pound can of Sir Walter Raleigh toward him.
I moved aside and tripped him and he sprawled against Broz's desk, knocking over the pipe rack.
Before a brilliantly polished parlor stove stood a comfortable chair, and the low table beside it held a lamp, a pipe rack, and a large ash tray.